Date: Sun, 23 May 2010 22:11:00 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> To: pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org" <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: missing firewire part in defaults/loader.conf Message-ID: <1274677860.6945.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTil5iEmFfcRTd2NrVb9XiPxCHCw0kdycO9jbYdig@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTil5iEmFfcRTd2NrVb9XiPxCHCw0kdycO9jbYdig@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 21:12 -0700, pluknet wrote: > Hi. > > [background] > Today I noticed my motherboard has embedded firewire > (none@ pci entry in pciconf with subclass FireWire). > I decided to attach it on boot with loading a kernel module, > so I had had to add an appropriate string to loader.conf > Unfortunately I forgot the module name, so I looked in > /boot/defaults/loader.conf for an example without success. > > The following firewire modules are missing: > fwe, fwip, fwohci, sbp, and probably several others. > > So what do you think of adding these entries? > Does it make sense to add (all of) them there? > On the other hand, there are already such exotic entries > as bktr and svr4 emulation layer, so why don't. > > %%% > Index: sys/boot/forth/loader.conf > =================================================================== > --- sys/boot/forth/loader.conf (revision 207204) > +++ sys/boot/forth/loader.conf (working copy) > @@ -398,6 +398,16 @@ > snd_uaudio_load="NO" # USB audio > > ############################################################## > +### FireWire modules ####################################### > +############################################################## > + > +firewire_load="NO" # IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus > +fwe_load="NO" # Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire > +fwip_load="NO" # IP over FireWire driver > +fwohci_load="NO" # OHCI FireWire chipset device driver > (load with firewire) > +sbp_load="NO" # SBP-2 Mass Storage Devices driver > + > +############################################################## > ### Other modules ########################################## > ############################################################## > > %%% > That's probably appropriate. I wonder why it hasn't been done before. sean
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