Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 04:42:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: phk@critter.freebsd.dk (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pcisupport.c Message-ID: <199711120442.VAA24025@usr03.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <2559.879270126@critter.freebsd.dk> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Nov 11, 97 06:42:06 pm
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> >> You know, I've been wondering about this kind of details for a long > >> time. It takes up a fair bit of kernel space, and it doesn't really > >> buy us much... > > > >> Same as the Intel Chipsets in bootverbose case, nice but kind of > >> bloated, isn't it ? > > > >Well, in the far future world where we are able to throw away parts of > >the kernel code that we don't need after initialization, this would > >certainly be an obvious candidate. > > But because of CardBus and hot-plug PCI we will not be able to discard > these bits :-( Plug events are, I think relatively rare. Because of that, you should be able to discard the code, and page it back in when you get an event. This assumes a far future world that can do kernel paging, as well as throwing away initialization code... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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