From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 01:40:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA29394 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA29386 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA13648; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:30:43 -0800 To: David Langford cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert), phk@critter.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:49:02 -1000." <199601170049.OAA18876@hula.maui.net> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 01:30:43 -0800 Message-ID: <13646.821871043@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Would it be possible to go LKM happy with a kernel and ask what drivers > to use? This is not a new idea. :-) However, there are lot of issues to solve to really make this work. You'll note something called `devfs' in -current which was/is/could be part of our great hope in solving some of those issues. The only problem with devfs is that the author is never happy with it and starts re-writing it from the beginning again before ever finishing any of the previous versions. :-) Jordan