From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 6 21:46:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA19636 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:46:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA19631 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:46:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA05671; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:46:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 00:46:20 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Mike Smith cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLD - what's the idea? In-Reply-To: <199812050125.RAA01279@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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