From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 20:11:30 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 2261B37B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0778843E5E; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6P3BMYx020358; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:11:22 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:11:19 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020724.211119.104032694.imp@bsdimp.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> References: <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com> <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 In message: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> Terry Lambert writes: : "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-). No it isn't. so long as the boot blocks can read the from the cdrom/scsi, you load the driver at boot time. That's not a barrier to entry. Honest, I've done it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message