From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 10 12:45:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA12336 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:45:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12325 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:45:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA00401; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:43:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811102043.MAA00401@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Ron G. Minnich" cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCI devices drivers as LKMs In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:40:44 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 12:43:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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