Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 10:02:22 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <7142.894560542@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 07 May 1998 08:55:45 MDT." <199805071455.IAA09315@mt.sri.com>
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> > Hmmmm. Rather than tell us about what's wrong with sysctl, such > > criticism being hardly new or even particularly valuable, why not tell > > us what you'd rather see implemented and how you might, given the > > time, go about doing it? > > Something that is not PnP specific, but allows a person to allocate > resources to non-ISA devices. Erm... Are we talking about sysctl here or have we wandered back into the PnP thread by mistake? :-) To be sure, a more powerful mechanism could take over the task (to some extent) of associating configuration data with ISA drivers, but I think that any "new sysctl design" would be better described using simpler examples, e.g. how one would declare tweakable knobs from within the kernel, how one would add additional knobs and how one would structure the configuration file. Those are the kinds of details I was looking for, not an airy-fairy depiction of what things would be like well after those sorts of issues were sorted out. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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