-------- In message <CANCZdfrUT9ZBNqQQo0C=2ydzGHq+=c_ks+ky5krxairgfpj...@mail.gmail.com>, Warner Losh writes:
>That's tricky for a lot of reasons, but the tl;dr version is that >embedded is different because you don't just enable a device, but all the >dependencies which, unlike x86, are often 'non-linear' and possibly >non-orthogonal to other devices (eg, you may either have A B and C enabled, >or D E and F, but never any other combination, how do you transition from >state to state sanely). I have no problems if we deal with the most obscure cases by saying "Too complicated for runtime-reconf, please reboot", and there are indeed hardware out there where that is required for various reason. But trival (and popular) cases "should just work". >It's a tricky ball of wax that we've neglected for too long. Indeed, and thanks for doing so. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
