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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:21:40 +0200
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely7.cicely.de>
To:        John Hein <jhein@timing.com>
Cc:        arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: loadable drivers
Message-ID:  <20081015162140.GQ25586@cicely7.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <18677.7678.159413.615726@gromit.timing.com>
References:  <18677.60.434738.596456@gromit.timing.com> <20081015003842.a2bd682b.stas@FreeBSD.org> <20081014.153418.1353606085.imp@bsdimp.com> <18677.7678.159413.615726@gromit.timing.com>

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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:32:30PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
> M. Warner Losh wrote at 15:34 -0600 on Oct 14, 2008:
>  > In message: <20081015003842.a2bd682b.stas@FreeBSD.org>
>  >             Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> writes:
>  > : On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:25:32 -0600
>  > : John Hein <jhein@timing.com> mentioned:
>  > : 
>  > : > What needs to be done to support loadable drivers under arm/freebsd?
>  > : 
>  > : I think they should work, aren't they?
>  > 
>  > Build them...  They work..
> 
> Sorry for the poor problem statement.  They do load, but I'm not
> getting into the probe or attach.  At first I thought the load
> was failing, but that was driver error (pardon the pun).

Then it is likely a driver or configuration specific problem.
One of the possible reasons is that you may missing hints, because many
devices in embedded systems don't support probing.
IIRC I already successfully loaded USB modules on AT91.

-- 
B.Walter <bernd@bwct.de> http://www.bwct.de
Modbus/TCP Ethernet I/O Baugruppen, ARM basierte FreeBSD Rechner uvm.



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