Mike Smith wrote:
> > I have card* compiled in (perhaps I should have mentioned that?), and
> > pcic* kldloaded.
> >
> > > This makes the pcic module useless, and, as I said, renders any 
> > > combination other than 100% static *broken*.
> > 
> > Rubbish! Why is my system working?
> 
> Because you have an horrific mishmash of bits; it's not meant to be 
> broken up as you have. 

If that is the case, then the documentation and people's ideas
differ dramatically from reality. As I said, I have a nicely
working Libretto here. The configs could be tidier, and more
of the kernel could be KLD, but it works almost as well as PAO
did 7 months ago, and this is -CURRENT :-).

> > Any suggestions for a kernel neophyte on how to get stuck into 3)?
> 
> Not really; you'd need to study how KLD currently works, then go back 
> over the discussions that Peter, Doug, I and others have had about how 
> we might identify modules within a file, and implement it.  I fear that 
> it will result in binary incompatability (again).

Fooey :-(. Smells like a kernel registry-of-loaded-bits is needed?

M
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