From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 24 20:56:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 112A337B400; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F00643E6E; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 20:56:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6P3ugYx020506; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:56:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 21:56:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020724.215640.26964830.imp@bsdimp.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: doconnor@gsoft.com.au, matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org, ru@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/i386 drivers.conf From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com> References: <3D3F5F40.AC5A33EF@mindspring.com> <1027563817.5847.15.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <3D3F7373.329CE5EF@mindspring.com> Terry Lambert writes: : Daniel O'Connor wrote: : > On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:45, Terry Lambert wrote: : > > Anything in the boot path needs to be static, by definition, : > > or you face the Catch-22 of needing to load the driver in : > > order to be able to load the driver. : > : > Uhh, not really. : > If your BIOS supports it (which it must for you to boot off it) then the : > loader can load any extra modules you need. : > : > If your argument was true then the kernel would need to load itself :) : : Think "CDROM install". Dude, what crack are you smoking? How many times to we have to tell you. We have a boot loader that knows how to read the kernel from the cdrom or scsi or whatever. IT is a tiny increment to also load additional modules at that time that support those devices. What's the real issue? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message