Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:29:49 -0700 (MST) From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: blackend@freebsd.org Cc: doc-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20050114.142949.59658149.imp@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: <20050114210000.GP617@nosferatu.blackend.org> References: <20050114111005.GC617@nosferatu.blackend.org> <20050114.135132.112620761.imp@harmony.village.org> <20050114210000.GP617@nosferatu.blackend.org>
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From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config chapter.sgml Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:00:00 +0100 > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > In fact with old ISA cards and 4.X, you have to pass some settings to > > > the card (I/O port, IRQ, etc.), and the easiest way to do it is via the > > > kernel config line (it's possible to override at boot these settings but > > > not easy, if my memories are good), so in that case the modules bring > > > nothing. To sum up, it may be a good thing to push ISA NIC users to > > > build a custom kernel to support their cards. I'd even add does it > > > worth to talk too much about ISA NICs? > > > > Non PNP cards, yes. In 5.x, you can add a few lines to loader.conf > > and/or device.hints and load just fine. > > > > Yes, that's exactly the same thing for example with the sound cards, in > the case of non-PnP ISA cards, the modules should not be used if your > card does not use default settings (I'm talking about 4.X). > I have a question, does kernel.conf settings may be used to pass > settings to kernel modules under 4.X? I don't know well enough to say definitively. I ported 5.x hints to 4.x for my company's needs. Warner
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