Date: 25 Jul 2002 11:53:35 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf Message-ID: <1027563817.5847.15.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> References: <20020705005426Y.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724173037.GE87477@sunbay.com> <20020725032910A.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> <20020724.184701.17239163.imp@bsdimp.com> <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:45, Terry Lambert wrote: > Anything in the boot path needs to be static, by definition, > or you face the Catch-22 of needing to load the driver in > order to be able to load the driver. Uhh, not really. If your BIOS supports it (which it must for you to boot off it) then the loader can load any extra modules you need. If your argument was true then the kernel would need to load itself :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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