Date: Wed, 22 Feb 95 10:11:59 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: licau@ebs08.eb.uah.edu (Luis Verissimo) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Writing Device Drivers in FreeBSD 2.0 Message-ID: <9502221712.AA24001@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9502212235.B10952-0100000@ebs08.eb.uah.edu> from "Luis Verissimo" at Feb 21, 95 10:21:22 pm
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> One of the assignments in this class is to write a Device Driver, which > will be a SCSI controller. > > Can someone tell me if install the device driver in the kernel in FreeBSD > 2.0 without having to recompile the kernel? I know that you don't need > to do that in Solaris. Yes and no. If the SCSI device is going to be the boot device, you MUST link it into the kernel. If it's not a boot device, you can load it as a kernel module -- there is a large amount of kernel module sample code thanks mainly to Garrett. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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