From owner-freebsd-commit Fri Dec 15 00:09:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA02852 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:09:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA02821 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA02807 for cvs-user-outgoing; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:09:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de [134.169.246.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA02629 Fri, 15 Dec 1995 00:08:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from achill [134.169.34.18] by ra.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (8.6.10/tubsibr) with ESMTP id JAA14571; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:01:32 +0100 Received: from petri@localhost by achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de (8.6.10/tubsibr) id JAA26086; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:01:20 +0100 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:01:20 +0100 From: Stefan Petri Message-Id: <199512150801.JAA26086@achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM CC: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@freefall.freebsd.org In-reply-to: Peter Wemm's message of Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:00:32 +0800 (WST) Subject: cvs commit: src/lkm/gnufpu Makefile Reply-to: petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Hi! > The kernel should load it if the npx probe fails. Can we do this yet or will > it require an in-kernel linker? It's something we need to be able do so > that we can load device drivers on the fly following probes so all you have > to have compiled in is the probe routines or actually you can load the device > driver, do probe and then unload it if it fails. All you need then is a list > of available drivers. Will this make the kernel smaller? and/or faster? I see the danger that the dynamic driver loading will so much overhead that we end up with a kernel as big as e.g. S*laris 2.x ... Stefan