From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 26 2:10:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBFC37BD35 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA08414 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:10:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id LAA03278 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:10:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0417E37BB6A; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:09:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13010; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:39:35 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <00042604070501.06932@nomad.dataplex.net> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:39:34 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: How about building modules along with the kernel? Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26-Apr-00 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > One thing that bothers me about the direction that I see is that we are > getting > away from the symplicity of the loader just reading a few sectors from the > boot > device. As we get more and more complex, the loader must understand more > about > the underlying file system. This makes it more complicated and less portable > to > alternate configurations. The loader can (and does) already read UFS.. It can read files in and load them into arbitarily named sections in the kernel, and other good things :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message