From owner-cvs-src Wed Feb 19 7:58:38 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFDA37B401; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:58:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F41F43F93; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:58:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JFwX3Y046510; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:58:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:54:12 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20030219.085412.66112033.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 From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <20030219014824S.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Robert Watson 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-src" in the body of the message