From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 5 05:32:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDAB937B401 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 05:32:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lupinella.troll.no (lupinella.troll.no [80.232.37.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A977C43FA3 for ; Mon, 5 May 2003 05:32:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ebakke@trolltech.com) Received: from riserva.troll.no ([80.232.37.220]:57024 "EHLO riserva.troll.no" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by trolltech.com with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Mon, 5 May 2003 14:32:05 +0200 From: "Erik H. Bakke" To: "M. Warner Losh" , doconnor@gsoft.com.au Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 14:35:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> <200305051222.05046.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20030505.062203.30240784.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20030505.062203.30240784.imp@bsdimp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305051435.12481.ebakke@trolltech.com> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 12:32:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 May 2003 14:22, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : Or use modules.. > : The vast majority of drivers are loadable as modules. It would be > : feasible to standardise the PCI ID tables of drivers and then generate a > : list from it which you can use to load modules for cards you find. > > There's more than just pci ID. Also, there are a couple of drivers > that don't base their decision on the pci id, but other things in the > headers to attach to all devices of a certain class. This makes > autoloading a little harder. > Wouldn't this be the drivers that would always be on the kernel floppy? I think the drivers that would be candidates for autoloading based on PCI ID would be more specialized drivers, and typically not drivers for things such as IDE controllers, bus bridges, etc. - --- Erik H. Bakke -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+tlp/9C11Y60pBiMRAhVVAJ4oounL+IM24P2lIgKDgdBJfRnXeQCeLOAR oVtFXtcpk+XbHlTEzS4rETk= =pvjt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----