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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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