Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-28 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 25 February 2005 04:39 am, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Thu, 2005-Feb-24 17:59:19 -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >- kernel option support. How do we support vendor modules in a kernel > >that might be compiled with PAE (rather common these days), SMP, MAC, > >etc. The loader and /boot infrastru

Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-25 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Thu, 2005-Feb-24 17:59:19 -0700, Scott Long wrote: >- kernel option support. How do we support vendor modules in a kernel >that might be compiled with PAE (rather common these days), SMP, MAC, >etc. The loader and /boot infrastructure has no concept of this. It's >highly important, though. A

Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:14, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I think PORTS_MODULES is a little suboptimal.. > > How so? If you upgrade your ports tree and then rebuild your kernel you may upgrade a port KLD without wanting to. > : Fx5200 Go). It also means that the kernel build/install does not result >

Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
[[ don't cc freebsd-hackers@ and hackers@ ]] In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:39, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > One does not need to patch the source tree at to pick up ports modules : > for a kernel rebuild. One can bu

Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:39, M. Warner Losh wrote: > One does not need to patch the source tree at to pick up ports modules > for a kernel rebuild. One can build the ports modules as part of the > kernel by simply defining PORTS_MODULES in a kernel config file. In > addition, one can specify absolu

Re: Driver Update Disk discussion

2005-02-24 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : - runtime support. Where will modules be put, how will they be ensured : to not collide with the base system modules, and how will the system : ensure that they get loaded on every boot. Most of the pieces are in