Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:43:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI devices drivers as LKMs Message-ID: <199811102043.MAA00401@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:40:44 EST." <Pine.SUN.3.91.981110153953.6346B-100000@terra>
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> I think I asked this before, and it was not possible, but am just > checking. Can a PCI driver be built as an LKM. Based on how PCI > configuration happens, I am not sure it could, but thought I would check. There were some patches posted by Stefan Esser a little while back for this, but no, there's no standard way of doing it as you correctly intimate. Ideally we will be shifting to dynamic registration of PCI drivers with the new bus model, and this will make things easier. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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