On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 19:06, Helge Oldach wrote: > The issue with kldloading is that you still need PNPBIOS for many > on-board sound devices. Which means that you need to compile your own > kernel anyway, or don´t you?
I don't think I've ever seen a motherboard/BIOS where you HAD to compile it in the kernel.. I don't see why kldload'ing is different to static compilation WRT calling the BIOS.. (Then again I don't have any ISA hardware anymore :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
