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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:22:56 +0700 (ALMST)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kld questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903291214260.11120-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903281345440.3322-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>

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On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> > The motivation behind this question is that the driver allocates its
> > own memory for receives, and wraps external mbufs around that memory.
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> 
> The current pci code has some remnants of old LKM support but I don't
> think it includes anything functional.  The new pci code which I am slowly
> working on will support loadable drivers (that is the whole point really).

	Andrew also ask about 'unload' functionality, if this  will be
implemented how the problem with interface detach will be solved ? Having
ability to detach any interface should greatly simplify development for
both hardware and software interfaces.

--
Boris Popov



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