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Date:      Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:44:27 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kld and on demand device loading
Message-ID:  <199812291744.KAA00510@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org>
References:  <199812290554.WAA23027@harmony.village.org>

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> In the long term, I'd love to see something like that.  I believe that
> it dovetails well with the new-bus project nicely.  In the near term,
> an area that it fits fairly well is the pcmica stuff.  When a card is
> inserted, the module is loaded, and when removed it is released.

I looked into doing this almost 2 years ago, but unfortunately the
'unload' capability in FreeBSD is almost non-existent.  Even simply
'unloading' of IRQ's doesn't work reliably, let alone network devices,
SCSI bus's, serial ports, etc....

Nate

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