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Date:      Thu, 27 May 2010 15:33:50 +0400
From:      pluknet <pluknet@gmail.com>
To:        Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org" <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: missing firewire part in defaults/loader.conf
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On 24 May 2010 09:11, Sean Bruno <seanbru@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> 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
>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>> --- sys/boot/forth/loader.conf =A0(revision 207204)
>> +++ sys/boot/forth/loader.conf =A0(working copy)
>> @@ -398,6 +398,16 @@
>> =A0snd_uaudio_load=3D"NO" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # USB audio
>>
>> =A0##############################################################
>> +### =A0FireWire modules =A0#######################################
>> +##############################################################
>> +
>> +firewire_load=3D"NO" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # IEEE1394 High-performanc=
e Serial Bus
>> +fwe_load=3D"NO" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Ethernet emulation=
 driver for FireWire
>> +fwip_load=3D"NO" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # IP over FireWire dri=
ver
>> +fwohci_load=3D"NO" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 # OHCI FireWire chipset =
device driver
>> (load with firewire)
>> +sbp_load=3D"NO" =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# SBP-2 Mass Storage=
 Devices driver
>> +
>> +##############################################################
>> =A0### =A0Other modules =A0##########################################
>> =A0##############################################################
>>
>> %%%
>>
>
> That's probably appropriate. =A0I wonder why it hasn't been done before.
>
> sean
>
>

Since noone is interested yet, I submitted conf/147126.

--=20
wbr,
pluknet



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