From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 7 5:42:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown2-3-111.adsl.one.net [216.23.16.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5192B37B69E for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:42:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA11841; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:48:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 08:48:42 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Coleman Kane , Bosko Milekic , void , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000607084842.C11781@cokane.yi.org> References: <20000607013058.A32270@firedrake.org> <20000607014353.A10364@cokane.yi.org> <20000607124949.A25014@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000607124949.A25014@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Wed, Jun 07, 2000 at 06:50:03AM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, a lot of drivers aren't modules yet. It was basically an idea to move the kernel more towards a modular implementation. There will be a large number of modules if all the drivers were to become modules. It may not be, say, to everyone's liking to manually load a good deal of those. Plus, there are many people who use FreeBSD for desktop or home situations and even those who don't know a extremely large amount about computer hardware and all. This would be a nice "option" to have for some. Neil Blakey-Milner had the audacity to say: > > It might be nice to start running on modules regularly. It would also > > be useful to be able to update your device driver while running > > freebsd, without needing to reboot. > > You can already do this. kldunload the old module, and kldload the new > module. Or am I missing something again? > > Neil > -- > Neil Blakey-Milner > Sunesi Clinical Systems > nbm@mithrandr.moria.org > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message