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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: Problem with Julian's SCSI drivers
Message-ID: <CDIrxy.4oH@veda.is>
Date: 17 Sep 93 22:32:07 GMT
References: <CD7EyC.4Ax@nas.nasa.gov> <CDErsF.1Cx@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <CDEzuF.519@veda.is> <27aein$jlr@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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briggs@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Allen X Briggs) writes:

>When you build a kernel, you can setup in your config file which IDs
>should map to which devices.  This seems to work OK...

I forgot to mention that there is also support for hardwiring device numbers.
While we have a monolithic kernel, it is perhaps a bad idea to read in config
info from different files during boot time. This will/may change when there
are load/unloadable device drivers. Sorry, this is way off topic :-)

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