On 13 June 2011 07:53, Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]> wrote:
>> PC Card has also had the standard structure and interface for many years. >> When I tried to move this to PCI many years ago, I encountered a lot of >> resistance that didn't make sense to me at the time (so I can't do it >> justice now). This should tell you how long the problem has languished. It >> was the primary motivator behind writing devd, but the pci resistance lead >> me to put aside the problem for a while. I'll be happy to pick it back up, >> especially if I can get some help going through all the drivers and tagging >> things appropriately. > > I would be interested in helping, certainly with the mechanical changes. Give me a couple weeks to tinker with the build so I can at least populate a modules.conf file and boot i386/amd64 from a modules-only kernel, then I'll post an update to -arch. This kind of device enumeration would be nice but it's mostly orthogonal to the initial discussion point. Eg, given that you need to have loaded the root devices (eg ata/scsi, usb+umass, etc) before you boot the kernel, those will have to either be enumerated by loader (ew?) or loaded by loader at load time. Adrian (Alliteration was intentional. :) _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
