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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:15:44 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PCI LKM Drivers ?
Message-ID:  <19980217001544.05555@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980216221754.09856@mi.uni-koeln.de>; from Stefan Esser on Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 10:17:54PM %2B0100
References:  <199802050526.VAA00603@rah.star-gate.com> <19980216221754.09856@mi.uni-koeln.de>

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On Mon, Feb 16, 1998 at 10:17:54PM +0100, Stefan Esser wrote:
> On 1998-02-04 21:26 -0800, Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> wrote:
> > Curious, what is the correct way to load an LKM PCI driver?
> 
> You need a version of the PCI code, that was not yet tagged
> into the -stable tree: pci.c (1.64), pcibus.h (1.8)
[... details deleted ...]
> For the case of the Bt848 driver just replace (with
> the above mentioned versions of pci.c and pcibus.h
> compiled into the kernel):

Does this mean it is intentional that later versions of the PCI code
(post pci.c 1.72) don't have LKM support, and I have to have -stable
to develop using PCI LKMs?

As Amancio, I'm planning to hack on the Bt848-driver, and not having
to reboot every time would be _very_ convenient.

However, for the hacking I do on FreeBSD, I need to have -current...

Eivind.

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