Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 19:40:48 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: n@nectar.com (Jacques Vidrine), dnelson@emsphone.com, j_mini@efn.org, AdamT@smginc.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel Config datafile... Message-ID: <199712130141.TAA00563@kai.communique.net> In-Reply-To: <199712130041.RAA19766@usr04.primenet.com> References: <199712130041.RAA19766@usr04.primenet.com>
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Tee hee. Your later suggestion (by later I mean the one I read after I wrote the message below), if I read it right, sounds like the way to go long term. I understood it to mean something to the effect that at kernel build time, device drivers should probe the hardware to decide for themselves whether they should be included in the linked kernel. Or perhaps you meant that the kernel should be finalized at system load time via dynamic loading, rather than during kernel build time. I knew I should have read it twice before deleting, maybe you can privately resend? I guess the question it also brings up is, Do we want to spend time on an intermediate solution that _does_ involve a configuration file? Or do we want to skip reinventing the "Windows registry" and go for reinventing "Plug-n-Play" :-) Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> On 13 December 1997 at 0:41, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> wrote: > > sio: > > parent = isa? > > port = 0x3f8 "COM1", 0x2f8 "COM2", 0x3e8 "COM3", 0x2e8 "COM4", \ > > integer "OTHER" > > tty = true > > flags = 0x00001 "Shared IRQs", 0x00002 "Disable FIFO", ... > > irq = 3 "COM2 or COM4", 4 "COM1 or COM3", any "OTHER" > > vector = siointr > > Instead of reinventing Windows 3.1 .INI files, why down't we just > jump straight to reinventing the the Windows 95 registry? > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers.
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