Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:53:32 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci pci.c pcisupport.c pcivar.h Message-ID: <20000613105332.A97964@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Jun 13, 2000 at 10:47:06AM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006130947450.68954-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> <8947.960886026@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue 2000-06-13 (10:47), Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >As I said on in a reply to committers, this is probably best handled by > >the nomatch method of the pci driver. > > Completely unrelated to where we do this, I have had a fair number of > people ask me why we don't say stuff like: > > "Found <FOOcorp magicchip 1242> Configure \"blaha\" driver in your kernel" > > I can see all the bloat arguments, but I have to say that the idea > has some merit... It would be nice (as well as in the kernel boot, or as an alternative) if we could do this from userland. Basically just all those PNP and PCI ids cross referenced with the module name, and then we can just click and drool to load the module. As we become more able to use libh, this will become a very useful feature. (which reminds me that I should get back to the sysctl enumeration of newbus devices, which may help in this) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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