Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:42:26 +0730 (SST) From: Gregory Hosler <greg@camelot.eno.ericsson.se> To: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putting the bt848 driver into the GENERIC kernel Message-ID: <XFMail.980814084226.greg@camelot.eno.ericsson.se> In-Reply-To: <35D2C9DC.47D0@cs.strath.ac.uk>
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why not just compile the driver as a loadable module ?
just curious,
-Greg
On 13-Aug-98 Roger Hardiman wrote:
>Hi all
>
>Soren suggested a BOOTKERNEL and BIGKERNEL.
>
>I agree with that. Small (fit on floppy) BOOTKERNEL.
>Then the actuallt GENERIC kernel on the hard disk is the BIGKERNEL
>(bt848 DGA mode only support - no frame buffer allocation, and say
>Luigi's PCM code - really we just want the mixer and volume control)
>
>Soren, could you take it up with whoever in core handles the
>Build/Kernel process to see if they are interested in the idea please.
>
>Thanks
>Roger
>Strathclyde Uni Telepresence Group
>(26 hours to vacation)
>
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Date: 14-Aug-98
Time: 08:41:458
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