Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 08:49:40 -0400 From: Michael Proto <mike@jellydonut.org> To: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces? Message-ID: <4639DA64.9090608@jellydonut.org> In-Reply-To: <20070503082309.GG8556@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <20070503082309.GG8556@hugo10.ka.punkt.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello, all! > > In former times configuring a kernel was a bit more cumbersome, > yet more straightforward than is today: > > device isa > device sio0 at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 > device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x0 irq 3 > > to keep the kernel from messing with the second device > completely, you simply removed the second line. > > > Today I have: > > device pci > device miibus > device bge > > I have a particular system that uses what FreeBSD 6.2 detected > as bge1 for remote console access over IP. As soon as the > interface is probed and activated by the kernel, the connection > to the remote management controller breaks. > > Is there a way to limit the number of probed entities for > a certain pci device class to, say, 1 in my case? > I'd like to use bge0 for FreeBSD but the kernel should leave > everything else that might be a bge interface alone. > > Thanks, > Patrick > Would the following in /boot/device.hints achieve what you are after? hint.bge.1.disabled="1" hint.bge.2.disabled="1" ... -Proto
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4639DA64.9090608>