Among emails in this thread, Warner Losh wrote: [ so to avoid replying on per-email bases ] > (2) is the exact problem I'm working on. Since the design of that will > allow us to read from the kernel these modules, (1) becomes largely > irrelevant because the only /boot/loader incursion would be to load > drivers for any storage devices that are on the PCIe bus. ... > But you bring up a good point. i386 is easy, once the basics are done. > PowerPC is only slightly harder, since it has good /boot/loader support > as well as a GENERIC kernel or two. Ditto sparc64. But stepping into arm > and mips then all hell breaks loose. > > It's also desirable to refactor GENERIC, for the transition period, to be > include MINIMAL + more stuff. I'll do that as time permits.
Thanks for these follow-ups, it certainly brings more clarity to what you are up to, and overall it all sounds pretty awesome. Keep it up! :) ./danfe _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
