Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:48:25 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@spc.org Cc: mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org, scottl@samsco.org, ceri@submonkey.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using any network interface whatsoever Message-ID: <20060409.184825.99254285.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060409090757.GW80492@spc.org> References: <44383346.2030207@samsco.org> <17464.16087.217524.843667@bhuda.mired.org> <20060409090757.GW80492@spc.org>
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In message: <20060409090757.GW80492@spc.org> Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes: : What it really comes down to is that one needs a PCI variant which supports : what's known as 'geographical addressing', and for FreeBSD's device / ifnet : framework to support naming cards according to the geographic i.e. physical : address. I though thtis was already supported. We export bus/slot/function information devd, which can be used to configure the device. : Unfortunately the only systems which tend to implement this feature at : the moment are CompactPCI based chassis systems. Although there is support : for geographical addressing in a recent ACPI spec but as far as I know : it may only really have made its way into blade systems. How is this different than bus/slot/function? Warner
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