NAME
drivers.conf — driver configuration file for boot floppies
DESCRIPTION
The file drivers.conf is used during the release build process. A FreeBSD release includes three installation floppies. The first floppy image, kern.flp, contains a statically linked kernel. The second floppy image, mfsroot.flp, contains sysinstall(8), a collection of essential commands necessary for installation, and kernel modules to supplement the boot kernel. The third floppy image, drivers.flp, contains optional device drivers that may not be necessary for installation. Users must initially boot the system with kern.flp. Once the system has booted, the user is prompted to insert the mfsroot.flp. The modules present in the /stand/modules directory of the mfsroot floppy will automatically be loaded by sysinstall(8). If the user requires additional drivers, then the drivers present on drivers.flp may be loaded from sysinstall(8).
The /usr/src/release/${arch}/drivers.conf file contains a list of drivers that should be omitted from the boot kernel and installed as kernel modules on the mfsroot floppy or the driver floppy. This is necessary because a static kernel with all of the FreeBSD device drivers would be far too large for a single floppy disk. Each driver is described on a separate line; fields on each line are separated by tabs or spaces.
The first field, driver, is the name of the driver or option in the kernel configuration file. This is used by driver-remove.awk to remove drivers from the boot floppy kernel configuration file that are included as modules on the mfsroot floppy.
The second field, filename, is the name of the associated kernel module (without the .ko extension).
The third field, floppy, specifies which floppy disk should include the kernel module. A value of 2 represents the mfsroot.flp floppy image, and a value of 3 represents the optional drivers.flp floppy image.
The fourth field, type, specifies the driver category. If set to ’’options’’, then this module is assumed to add the functionality of a kernel option. Otherwise, this module is assumed to represent a device driver.
The fifth field, description, provides a short description of the device driver. This description is displayed to the user by sysinstall(8) when the module is loaded. The descriptions for all drivers on the optional drivers.flp image are listed in the file DRIVERS.TXT which is created by driver-desc.awk and accompanies the floppy images on the FTP sites and release media.
FILES
/usr/src/release/Makefile
/usr/src/release/${arch}/drivers.conf
/usr/src/release/scripts/driver-copy2.awk
/usr/src/release/scripts/driver-desc.awk
/usr/src/release/scripts/driver-remove.awk
SEE ALSO
release(7), kldload(8), sysinstall(8)
FreeBSD Release Engineering
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http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/ .
HISTORY
The drivers.conf file appeared in FreeBSD 4.5.
AUTHORS
HOSOKAWA, Tatsumi <hosokawa [AT] FreeBSD.org> originally added support for moving kernel modules to the mfsroot installer floppy image. This manual page was written by Murray Stokely <murray [AT] FreeBSD.org>.
BSD March 23, 2002 BSD