Date: Wed, 10 May 95 11:06:27 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers Message-ID: <9505101706.AA25853@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <m0s95LA-0002OfC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at May 10, 95 08:33:48 am
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> > > Really, it should be done with kernel level vnode I/O, just like the > > > UFS disk quotas. > > Do you mean that the device driver code should access a file in the > filesystem directly ? Yes; at attach time, it should do the download by reading a download file from the root FS. Not at interrupt level, of course. You could actually delay until first open. Like a "touch" instance in /etc/rc, or whatever. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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