loadable drivers

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely7.cicely.de
Wed Oct 15 16:39:50 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:32:30PM -0600, John Hein wrote:
> M. Warner Losh wrote at 15:34 -0600 on Oct 14, 2008:
>  > In message: <20081015003842.a2bd682b.stas at FreeBSD.org>
>  >             Stanislav Sedov <stas at freebsd.org> writes:
>  > : On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:25:32 -0600
>  > : John Hein <jhein at timing.com> mentioned:
>  > : 
>  > : > What needs to be done to support loadable drivers under arm/freebsd?
>  > : 
>  > : I think they should work, aren't they?
>  > 
>  > Build them...  They work..
> 
> Sorry for the poor problem statement.  They do load, but I'm not
> getting into the probe or attach.  At first I thought the load
> was failing, but that was driver error (pardon the pun).

Then it is likely a driver or configuration specific problem.
One of the possible reasons is that you may missing hints, because many
devices in embedded systems don't support probing.
IIRC I already successfully loaded USB modules on AT91.

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