Marc Horowitz writes:
> There's no mechanism for this besides ddb, and ddb is not small enough
> for the install kernel.  I have considered putting a very restrictive
> mask in the INSTALL kernel, but until now, 9 would have been in it.  A
> few weeks ago someone suggested replacing the mask with a preference
> list.  This is also a good idea, but still isn't perfect.
> 
> Another possibility is a sysctl.  The current code supports hot-insert
> (but not remove) in theory, but it doesn't always work for me.

I have a very twisted idea.

Why not allocate interrupts from the top down? I believe that, on most 
hosts, this will probably DTRT, at least long enough to install with a 
single ethernet or modem card (all you need to get the file systems
built and a GENERIC kernel booted.)

.pm