Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 16:58:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Pechter <pechter@lakewood.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Higher-level kernel config? Message-ID: <199709192058.QAA01449@i4got.lakewood.com> In-Reply-To: <199709192006.NAA29936@usr03.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Sep 19, 97 08:06:07 pm"
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> > I was just noticing that I have 3 or 4 customized config files here for > > various FreeBSD machines, and that stuff changes in the GENERIC and LINT > > files *much* more often than I change hardware in my machines. > > > I'm curious: could there ever be a case where you would not want to > include a driver for hardware that was actually in your machine? If > not, then I think dynamic autoconfiguration is the way to go. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org Sure... If you had two hard disk controllers (one for the DOS/OS2/Winxx) stuff and one for FreeBSD and you wanted to make sure the FreeBSD stuff couldn't access the dos side... (Say you were working on device drivers or the kernel and wanted to make your IDE stuff inaccessable to any BSD blowup)... I've taken the stuff out of the BIOS, but I occasionally don't use IDE or sound card drivers or serial drivers on some machines here. The sound card stuff is definitely a no-no if you're using the OSS stuff from 4Front. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 | 908-389-3592 pechter@lakewood.com | Save computing history, give an old geek old hardware. This msg brought to you by the letters PDP and the number 11.
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