From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Apr 26 3:29:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4811837B90E for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:29:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA09425 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:29:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id MAA03466 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:29:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3239437BC1D; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:28:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p19-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.84]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id TAA13680; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:28:12 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3906C526.A9F3EF02@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:29:59 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Richard Wackerbarth , freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How about building modules along with the kernel? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 26-Apr-00 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > One thing that bothers me about the direction that I see is that we are > > getting > > away from the symplicity of the loader just reading a few sectors from the > > boot > > device. As we get more and more complex, the loader must understand more > > about > > the underlying file system. This makes it more complicated and less portable > > to > > alternate configurations. > > The loader can (and does) already read UFS.. > > It can read files in and load them into arbitarily named sections in the > kernel, and other good things :) BTW, loader reads FAT just fine too, thank you. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message