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- From: gareth%nmr.ion.bpmf.ac.uk@ucl.ac.uk (Dr Gareth Barker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: >4 modload(8)able drivers in SunOS 4.1.[12]
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.122349.27215@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 12:23:49 GMT
- References: <BOB.92Jul28011406@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
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- In article 92Jul28011406@volitans.MorningStar.Com, bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
- >Other than adding more vd_unuseddev slots to the end of cdevsw[] in
- >/sys/sun/conf.c, is there any way to accomodate more than four
- >simultaneous modload(8)able drivers on a SunOS 4.1.[12] system? Or
- >does even that approach work (I haven't tried it yet myself)?
- >
- It certainly does work (I've done it) and I suspect it's currently
- the only way, as Sun themselves recommend it if you want to run
- a SparcPrinter and SunPC together.
- >It would be nice if the kernel config file could say "options VDDRV8"
- >or something along those lines.
- I think these options are just preprocessor variables, so you could
- add such an option yourself and put a macro into conf.c to set up
- the right no of c/bdev entries.
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