Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:54:12 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.org Cc: matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 dokern.sh Message-ID: <20030219.085412.66112033.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030219094625.70426B-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20030219014824S.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030219094625.70426B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: I think that most drivers are on the first floppy simply because it's
: there. With the advent of a driver floppy and boot-from-CD, assuming
: drivers can properly handle being loaded as modules, we should definitely
: prefer modules over direct linking from now on for the floppy install.
The only issues I've seen with loading from floppies is that if you
have a cardbus/pccard in the machine at boot, a bug in the cardbus
layer would turn off that card when a new module was loaded.
Warner
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