From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 4 11:37:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5765114E50 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 11:37:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA46103; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:38:43 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 19:38:43 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: "Zach N. Heilig" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PNP ids missing in sio.c In-Reply-To: <19990904111010.41861@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Doug Rabson scribbled this message on Sep 4: > > > This is of course a special case, a cranky network card and a > > > non-compiling driver for it. If the new pnp code avoids using resources > > > hard-wired to non-pnp isa devices (it may, I changed hardware before the > > > code was fixed), there shouldn't be any problems. It was an excellent > > > excuse to boot that nic anyway. > > > > The trick for this is to make sure that the config file contains accurate > > descriptions of all your non-pnp hardware. In this case, if you have: > > > > device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 5 ... > > > > then the subsequent pnp probes should avoid those port and irq settings. > > but the problem is that he couldn't have the line in because the driver > wouldn't compile... so are we going to add a dummy isa device that takes > up resources so that this won't happen again? maybe the user has some > win95 only isa card or something... but this needs to be able to be > configured... along w/ doing this at boot -c time too... We already have a dummy driver (unknown) which can be adapted for this purpose. Perhaps this is the best solution. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message