From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 4 16:52:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D7A37B5CB for ; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 16:52:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C4BAB1C5C; Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:52:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2000 19:52:40 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola To: Bob K Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kerneld for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20000604195240.C8523@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000604193924.B8523@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from melange@yip.org on Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:49:39PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 07:49:39PM -0400, Bob K wrote: > > Uhm. 90% of the klds _are_ device drivers... > > Yes, but I was referring to all the device drivers that aren't kld's, > which would be most of the ones included in the base system. Having a method of loading them wouldn't help, converting them to newbus and making modules out of them would. I don't see what kerneld does that kldload doesn't. examples are available for loading modules on demand as well (see vinum(8)). You guys are barking up the wrong proverbial tree. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message