Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 05:11:12 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New article Message-ID: <38DA7A60.B7C23121@newsguy.com> References: <200003231326.IAA24776@blackhelicopters.org>
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Michael Lucas wrote:
>
> > Alas, we have been evolving to allow mostly dispensing with a kernel
> > configuration file altogether.
>
> Then where are we going?
MMMmmmm... PnP, PCI, modules, devfs, load on demand, etc.
IIRC, you don't need to compile in some of the network cards anymore.
They'll be loaded on demand by ifconfig. The same has always applied for
filesystems, though you used to need to compile the one used for / in
the kernel (you can now use loader to load the module). There is general
interest in being able to load a module, probe, and then unload it if
the probe fails.
Legacy hardware will still need to be hand configured (though not
necessarily built in the kernel), and some kernel options are probably
unavoidable.
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