In article <199903171103.naa13...@ceia.nordier.com> you wrote: > Søren Schmidt wrote: > >> OK, easy enough, this is what I want to do: >> >> Boot from an ata disk on major# 30, device name "ad", plain and simple. > > I'd be inclined to handle this outside the boot code, by treating the > passed in major# as describing the device rather than specifying > the driver.
Why not have the boot blocks pass in a device 'name' rather than a major number. If the goal is to ditch major numbers entirely with a properly working DEVFS, then using major numbers in the new boot loader seems to be the wrong way to go. Until DEVFS is a reality, the kernel will still need to perform a name to major number translation, but it should be left up to the kernel. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
