Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
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>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1027563817.5847.15.camel>