Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:37:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), dfr@FreeBSD.ORG (Doug Rabson), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pci.c pcisupport.c pcivar.h Message-ID: <200006131637.JAA08514@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200006131620.KAA14918@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 13, 2000 10:20:24 AM
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> In message <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > : "Found <FOOcorp magicchip 1242> Configure \"blaha\" driver in your kernel" > : > : I can see all the bloat arguments, but I have to say that the idea > : has some merit... > > How could the kernel know all possible device drivers, even third > party ones? 1) Register them in a file 2) Read the file using kernel level file I/O 3) For simplicity sake, make each line in the file a fixed length; though some additional variable length text record stuff in the kernel would be useful eventually, the "edquota" approach is reasonable. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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