From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 19:17:23 2002 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 B059E37B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52A4143E70; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:17:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0419.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.164] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17XYBg-0002PV-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:17:08 -0700 Message-ID: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 19:15:28 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf References: <20020705005426Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724173037.GE87477@sunbay.com> <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > I've noticed that some of the older cam drivers are about all that is > in the way of making CAM truly loadable. By that I mean having a > kernel with all supported devices that aren't loadable forces CAM to > be in the kernel because some of the SCSI devices aren't (yet) > loadable. However, that's relatively easy to fix. I've noticed that the fact that I boot from a CDROM or a SCSI hard drive is in the way of making CAM loadable. 8-) 8-). Anything in the boot path needs to be static, by definition, or you face the Catch-22 of needing to load the driver in order to be able to load the driver. ...This wouldn't be a problem, if VM86 supported disk I/O, and you could replace drivers on the fly... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message