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Date:      Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:49:44 +0200
From:      Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net>
Subject:   Re: atapicam(4) as KLD?
Message-ID:  <200410151649.45117.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es>
In-Reply-To: <1097850967.843.14.camel@RabbitsDen>
References:  <20041013205141.GA874@galgenberg.net> <416EDA36.1070403@DeepCore.dk> <1097850967.843.14.camel@RabbitsDen>

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El Viernes, 15 de Octubre de 2004 16:36, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko=20
escribi=F3:
> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 15:57, S=F8ren Schmidt wrote:
> > Chuck Swiger wrote:
> > > Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > >> On Thursday 14 October 2004 12:59, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:51:41PM +0200, Ulrich Spoerlein
> > >>> wrote: [ ...well made userland point snipped... ]
> > >>> Unfortunately, due to the way ata and atapicam are implemented
> > >>> right now,
> > >>> this is unlikely to happen soon.
> > >>  ...
>
> Since I was one of the people responsible for using up space in
> S=F8ren's mailbox in the past, I felt obliged to chime in -- my laptop
> (AVERATEC 3150H) was complaining about ad0 and would eventually hang
> if it had 'device atapicam'. I have disabled it and lived happily
> thereafter. To be fair, I do not know if it still is the case. If
> there is enough interest out there, I can plug it back in.
>
> However, I think this would be something to consider before making it
> part of GENERIC kernel.
>
> FWIW.
> ---
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko.
>

Well, and something between?

With module support going better and better, we'll try to distribute=20
some other kernel appart of GENERIC.

This is now done by NetBSD and think that re makefiles support more than=20
GENERIC and install kernels.

Have also a PC or a MOBILE kernel may be of interest.

=2D-
  josemi



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