Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:46:21 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Valentino Crimi) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 Message-ID: <200003151546.QAA27560@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <ssntwiy00UwH0JEHM0@andrew.cmu.edu> from Thomas Valentino Crimi at "Mar 15, 2000 09:33:18 am"
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It seems Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote: > Excerpts from FreeBSD-CVS: 14-Mar-100 Re: cvs commit: src/sys/con.. by > Soren Schmidt@freebsd.dk > >It already does that _if_ you supply it the right parameters... > >See LINT for details... > > One last vestige of /dev/wd* that I use is for VMWare. The wd0 driver > isn't anywhere in kernel but supplying wd0 as the link to > /compat/linux/dev/hda makes the whole thing usable. Is it somehow > impure to merge the IOCTL functionality of wd* into ad* (as I beleive > this is why wd* can let VMWare recognise the disk, I can search back in > -emulators for the name of the IOCTL). If you use the ata driver there is NO difference if you link to /dev/ad* instead (the /dev/wd* entries end up in the same place). AFAIK vmware works just fine with the ata driver... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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