Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 07:25:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: kientzle@acm.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <3EB6746F.E7E3616C@mindspring.com> References: <20030504020700.B3CCA37B401@hub.freebsd.org> <200305051222.05046.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Or use modules.. > The vast majority of drivers are loadable as modules. It would be feasible to > standardise the PCI ID tables of drivers and then generate a list from it > which you can use to load modules for cards you find. ...loading them from some media for which the BIOS is capable of causing the loader to pre-load it using BIOS calls, or for which the kernel can load it only if there is a driver for that media statically compiled into the kernel, or for which a driver has been loaded via BIOS calls by the loader before the kernel is started. Q: I have a CDROM on controller XXX, how do I install? A: Load the driver for controller XXX from the CDROM. Q: If I could access the CDROM without the !@#!$*! driver, I wouldn't need to *LOAD* the driver! A: Oh. Still a "catch-22". -- Terry
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