From owner-freebsd-drivers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 19:37:27 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976421065675 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outZ.internet-mail-service.net (outz.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.249]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5291B8FC1F for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:37:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:47:27 -0700 Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241992D6004; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:25:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <47EBF498.9090409@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:25:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Macintosh/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Sack References: <3c0b01820803270851x24bfe739pea0bd4fb0ebecfb0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c0b01820803270851x24bfe739pea0bd4fb0ebecfb0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid driver build/debug questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Writing device drivers for FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:37:27 -0000 Alexander Sack wrote: > Hello: > > New to the FreeBSD kernel and I'm investigating a driver problem > (wasn't sure what list this should go on). > > I was wondering how to make a driver statically built instead of a > loadable module? Is this an artifact of the driver source build or > the generic kernel configuration mechanism via options etc.? i.e. > does a driver need to use something different than the bsd.kmod.mk > template make file to build a static driver. > > What I am trying to do is break at attach time more easily than > stepping through driver_probe_and_attach()/driver_attach_child() until > the attach routine gets called. I realize I can add a kdb_enter() but > I was trying to do this on a live system without rebuilding the kernel > (I understand this contradicts my first question but I still want to > know how to build drivers statically). put the filennames in /sys/conf/files or files.i386 (or whatever) at one stage you could also have a files.{CONFIGNAME} but I haven't tried that for a long time. > > Thanks! > > -aps >