Re: ATAPICAM problem

From: Anton Nikiforov <anton_at_nikiforov.ru>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:32:47 +0300
Kevin Oberman пишет:

>>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:47:10 +0300
>>From: Anton Nikiforov <anton_at_nikiforov.ru>
>>Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
>>
>>Looks like i have found a problem.
>>When i disable hints file in the kernel config - everything become fine 
>>and i can now see my cd0 perfectly :)
>>Thanks everybody.
>>    
>>
>
>Ahh. Normally I would not recommend compiling hints into the kernel. The
>main value of device hints is to allow them to be easily manipulated.
>
>I'm sure that it marginally slows the boot operation, but it's way too
>easy to have something in hints that you would like to change, but, with
>hints in the kernel, you need to rebuild the kernel to make that change.
>
>I am curious why this broke atapicam, though. Did you have something
>odd in the compiled hints? Were you using the hints file in
>/boot/device.hints or GENERIC.hints?
>  
>
I was using GENERIC.hints in the kernel.

Anton


Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 12:32:55 UTC

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