missing firewire part in defaults/loader.conf

[Sean Bruno]

On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 21:12 -0700, pluknet wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> [background]
> Today I noticed my motherboard has embedded firewire
> (none@ pci entry in pciconf with subclass FireWire).
> I decided to attach it on boot with loading a kernel module,
> so I had had to add an appropriate string to loader.conf
> Unfortunately I forgot the module name, so I looked in
> /boot/defaults/loader.conf for an example without success.
> 
> The following firewire modules are missing:
> fwe, fwip, fwohci, sbp, and probably several others.
> 
> So what do you think of adding these entries?
> Does it make sense to add (all of) them there?
> On the other hand, there are already such exotic entries
> as bktr and svr4 emulation layer, so why don't.
> 
> %%%
> Index: sys/boot/forth/loader.conf
> ===================================================================
> --- sys/boot/forth/loader.conf  (revision 207204)
> +++ sys/boot/forth/loader.conf  (working copy)
> @@ -398,6 +398,16 @@
>  snd_uaudio_load="NO"           # USB audio
> 
>  ##############################################################
> +###  FireWire modules  #######################################
> +##############################################################
> +
> +firewire_load="NO"             # IEEE1394 High-performance Serial Bus
> +fwe_load="NO"                  # Ethernet emulation driver for FireWire
> +fwip_load="NO"                 # IP over FireWire driver
> +fwohci_load="NO"               # OHCI FireWire chipset device driver
> (load with firewire)
> +sbp_load="NO"                  # SBP-2 Mass Storage Devices driver
> +
> +##############################################################
>  ###  Other modules  ##########################################
>  ##############################################################
> 
> %%%
> 

That's probably appropriate.  I wonder why it hasn't been done before.

sean