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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:41:39 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf
Message-ID:  <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020705005426Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724173037.GE87477@sunbay.com> <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com>  <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> <1027563817.5847.15.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:45, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Uhh, not really.
> If your BIOS supports it (which it must for you to boot off it) then the
> loader can load any extra modules you need.
> 
> If your argument was true then the kernel would need to load itself :)

Think "CDROM install".

-- Terry

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