Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 09:01:20 +0100 From: Stefan Petri <petri@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM Cc: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, bde@zeta.org.au, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org, phk@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: cvs commit: src/lkm/gnufpu Makefile Message-ID: <199512150801.JAA26086@achill.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de> In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of Thu, 14 Dec 1995 21:00:32 %2B0800 (WST) <Pine.BSF.3.91.951214205455.3291A-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Hi! > The kernel should load it if the npx probe fails. Can we do this yet or will > it require an in-kernel linker? It's something we need to be able do so > that we can load device drivers on the fly following probes so all you have > to have compiled in is the probe routines or actually you can load the device > driver, do probe and then unload it if it fails. All you need then is a list > of available drivers. Will this make the kernel smaller? and/or faster? I see the danger that the dynamic driver loading will so much overhead that we end up with a kernel as big as e.g. S*laris 2.x ... Stefan
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