Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 17:17:31 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCCardd Message-ID: <392F849B.D1D5D147@newsguy.com> References: <200005241229.VAA00370@daniel.sobral> <200005262204.QAA92794@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <200005241229.VAA00370@daniel.sobral> "Daniel C. Sobral" writes: > : Motivated, I further investigated /etc/rc, and moved pccard > : initialization to right before swapon, edited my fstab, added dumpdev to > : my /etc/rc.conf (with the -z), moved pccard* and logger to /sbin and > : voila'! Things now work as I need them to. > > Cool. One reason we didn't do that is that it will take a long time > to boot on some machines. The card init stuff takes approx 30 seconds > in OLDCARD. I know that, but -z can be specified on rc.conf optionally. The moving around requires changing rc, which causes trouble with mergemaster later, and the /usr/[s]bin->/sbin change. > : Now, I know the new card stuff is going to be very different, but will I > : have the ability to get my aic drives up and running before swapon gets > : run? Depending on how things are planned to work, I'd suggest adding > : some sort of flag by which devices that need to get going earlier, such > : as aic, can be probed for separately (and earlier) than those that need > : to be brought up later, for whatever reasons. > > Well, NetBSD kinda supports having root on a pccard device, if the > ROMs support it. I say kinda, because it supports 1 card, but not two > last time I checked. Are there ROMs which support pccard? Interesting... > NEWCARD, which is a port from NetBSD, will have at most a couple of > seconds of delays and won't need pccardd to be running to do device > attachment. Good. :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@another.bsdconspiracy.org "Sentience hurts." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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