Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 19:29:59 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How about building modules along with the kernel? Message-ID: <3906C526.A9F3EF02@newsguy.com> References: <XFMail.000426183934.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 26-Apr-00 Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > One thing that bothers me about the direction that I see is that we are > > getting > > away from the symplicity of the loader just reading a few sectors from the > > boot > > device. As we get more and more complex, the loader must understand more > > about > > the underlying file system. This makes it more complicated and less portable > > to > > alternate configurations. > > The loader can (and does) already read UFS.. > > It can read files in and load them into arbitarily named sections in the > kernel, and other good things :) BTW, loader reads FAT just fine too, thank you. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org dcs@there.is.no.such.thing.as.a.bsdconspiracy.net GPL certainly doesn't meet Janis Joplin's definition of freedom: "Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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