Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 18:14:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Frank McConnell <fmc@reanimators.org> Cc: Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk>, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, faber@isi.edu Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? Message-ID: <199807280114.SAA02516@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "27 Jul 1998 17:08:42 PDT." <199807280008.RAA18750@daemonweed.reanimators.org>
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> Robert Swindells <swindellsr@genrad.co.uk> wrote: > > I may have spoken too soon about the driver in stable being OK. > > > > There was a change committed on July 20 which looks like it will break > > probing of the PCnet-II chip. > > I seem to have run afoul of another part of this change. I'm not sure > if it's due to hardware misconfiguration on my part, but the way it > behaves is bothersome. No, you're correct, and I slipped on this. The ID that is tested for is the generic ID for the 79c971, not a Hitachi-specific ID, and I didn't realise that. We do need a better probe for the Hitachi case. > For all I know there is some way to tell the card not to do the ISA > emulation, but that's been pushed to the copious free time list so I > may not find out soon. No. ISA and PCI share an I/O space, but that's about it. I'm sorry; this is breakage in both 2.2.7 and -current, and we're going to need a better way of identifying the problem cases like the Hitachi (or a better workaround). 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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