Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:23:36 +0200 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, current@FreeBSD.org, marius@FreeBSD.org, gallatin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NICs not in GENERIC Message-ID: <E1S0Txg-0005ed-GL@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <20120221175111.GA41049@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20120221155656.Horde.kkqxT5jmRSRPQ7C4wSPK1kA@webmail.leidinger.net> <20120221175111.GA41049@hub.freebsd.org>
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> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:56:56PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > is there a specific reason that the following NICs are not (or shall > > not be) in GENERIC (at least on i386)? > > No specific reason for these two: > > > - if_cxgb > > - if_cxgbe > > But I do prefer to load them as modules (and as late as possible -- > after sysctl.conf has been processed and any nmbclusters, nmbjumboXX > settings have taken affect). > > Other than root over NFS, is there any reason to have NIC drivers in > GENERIC? even with root over NFS (aka diskless/dataless) you can load the nic module via loader.conf. > > Regards, > Navdeep > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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