Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 18:39:34 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How about building modules along with the kernel? Message-ID: <XFMail.000426183934.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <00042604070501.06932@nomad.dataplex.net>
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On 26-Apr-00 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > One thing that bothers me about the direction that I see is that we are > getting > away from the symplicity of the loader just reading a few sectors from the > boot > device. As we get more and more complex, the loader must understand more > about > the underlying file system. This makes it more complicated and less portable > to > alternate configurations. The loader can (and does) already read UFS.. It can read files in and load them into arbitarily named sections in the kernel, and other good things :) --- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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