From owner-freebsd-multimedia Thu Aug 13 17:41:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18797 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18786 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 17:41:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from greg@camelot.eno.ericsson.se) Received: from camelot.eno.ericsson.se (camelot.eno.ericsson.se [150.236.172.92]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.9.0/8.9.0/glacier-1.11) with ESMTP id CAA04425; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:40:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from london.eno.ericsson.se (london [150.236.172.10]) by camelot.eno.ericsson.se with SMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id IAA03158; Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:42:16 +0800 (SST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on HPUX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <35D2C9DC.47D0@cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 08:42:26 +0730 (SST) Organization: Ericsson, Pte Ltd From: Gregory Hosler To: Roger Hardiman Subject: Re: Putting the bt848 driver into the GENERIC kernel Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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) > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregory Hosler Date: 14-Aug-98 Time: 08:41:458 "And where were you at 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970?" -- As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message