[haiku] Re: ported freebsd ethernet controllers
- From: "Karl vom Dorff" <karl@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:32:54 -0500
>
> Karl,
> I see you are building many of these yourself and posted them
> untested, instructing users to put them in:
> /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin
> and link to:
> /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net
> Users should NOT be messing with anything in /boot/beos
> For these you should create folder called
> /boot/common/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin
> and
> /boot/common/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net
> That way if the driver(s) don't work correctly and render the system
> unbootable, a user can press the spacebar during bootup and use the
> debug menu to disable user added drivers, which allows them to get
> back in to fix things.
>
> For further information checkout the Welcome link which should now be
> included in new Haiku builds on the desktop, it's a work in progress
> but humdinger has already added info on the filesystem layout.
> -scottmc
Thanks for that info, I'll adjust the instructions.
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