From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 25 00:20:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA08528 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:20:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA08521 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 00:20:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA13232 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 09:20:50 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA05045; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:54:30 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 08:54:28 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ethernet options on 2.2-GAMMA References: <6892.856848493@time.cdrom.com> <199702250622.QAA13039@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199702250628.XAA20730@rocky.mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702250628.XAA20730@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on Feb 24, 1997 23:28:31 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Nate Williams wrote: > > The relevant code in pccardd is actually fairly small, and the card > > database ought to compress well. > > Actually, this is the hard part. The code in pccardd is *NOT* small, > since it has to read all of the darn card TUPLES and such. It's alot of > bloat for (IMHO) little gain. What about supplying this from a second floppy? Remember, once the kernel has been loaded, the floppy device is available again. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)