Tommy McNeely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am working with some guys who are porting zaptel to Solaris. They have the 
> basic stuff working, but we are wondering about "best practices" for 
> something...
>
> IN LINUX: after compiling the kernel modules to match your kernel, it 
> installs an init script, config files and /etc/sysconfig/zaptel. When the 
> system boots, /etc/init.d/zaptel reads /etc/sysconfig/zaptel to get a list of 
> modules to load (base, dummy, tdm card, t1 card, quad t1 card, etc etc etc). 
> Ideally you shouldn't just blindly load every module, so you customize that 
> file to only load the modules you need. Also, /etc/modules.conf causes the 
> system to run /usr/sbin/ztcfg upon loading the module.
>
> IN SOLARIS: 
> - should we install the kernel modules into /kernel/drv (or somewhere under 
> /opt)
> - should we use SMF to load the modules (maybe using /etc/default/zaptel ?) 
> and run ztcfg?
> - is using forceload in /etc/system discouraged for this sort of thing?

Solaris auto-loads drivers on demand, there is no need to do this
manually.

If you need autopushed streams drivers, look into  /etc/iu.ap


Jörg

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