Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:46:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD - what's the idea? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9812070045000.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199812050125.RAA01279@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > It would certainly be feasible to arrange for the firmware images to > > > be loaded from separate files, should that be an acceptable > > > alternative. I'm open to suggestions on how to make this economical > > > and robust... > > > > Ooh! Ooh! Me Me! > > You have ideas, or you want the functionality? 8) Functionality of course. :) > > I was kind of wondering how to avoid compiling in 20 to 60 Kb of firmware > > image for support of RAM based TMS380 cards. In addition, some each > > particular card may have specific firmware it wants loaded. I'm looking > > for some way to load a really basic config file to let the driver know > > which image goes with which card. > > > > Doing this from userland isn't good as I can't do much with the card until > > the firmware is loaded. > > Are these PnP devices, ie. can you differentiate between them before > running the probe? Are they ever likely to be critical to the boot > process? ISA/ISA-PnP/EISA/PCI bards. How critical to the boot process are network cards? -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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