From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 13 9:38: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp09.phx.gblx.net (smtp09.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53ED037BED5; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:38:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp09.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA38864; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:37:56 -0700 Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp09.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdkeAKEa; Tue Jun 13 09:37:50 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA08514; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:37:49 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200006131637.JAA08514@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pci.c pcisupport.c pcivar.h To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 16:37:49 +0000 (GMT) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp), dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson), dfr@FreeBSD.ORG (Doug Rabson), arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200006131620.KAA14918@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 13, 2000 10:20:24 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: > : "Found 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