From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 11 09:43:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA08112 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:43:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA08098 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 09:43:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.cybercity.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA02561; Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:42:07 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Garrett Wollman cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Nov 1997 12:38:21 EST." <199711111738.MAA14295@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:42:06 +0100 Message-ID: <2559.879270126@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199711111738.MAA14295@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman write s: ><.dk> said: > >> You know, I've been wondering about this kind of details for a long >> time. It takes up a fair bit of kernel space, and it doesn't really >> buy us much... > >> Same as the Intel Chipsets in bootverbose case, nice but kind of >> bloated, isn't it ? > >Well, in the far future world where we are able to throw away parts of >the kernel code that we don't need after initialization, this would >certainly be an obvious candidate. But because of CardBus and hot-plug PCI we will not be able to discard these bits :-( -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."