From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 17 10:55:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA27175 for current-outgoing; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 10:55:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE (Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27170 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 10:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (annexr3-13.slip.Uni-Koeln.DE) by Sisyphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE with SMTP id AA12911 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:55:34 +0100 Received: (from se@localhost) by x14.mi.uni-koeln.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id TAA08104; Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:55:38 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <19970317195538.40845@x14.> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:55:38 +0100 From: Stefan Esser To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Xpress motherboards? References: <9703141918.AA01611@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <19970317192048.60297@x14.> <199703171825.NAA12224@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.65_p2,4-7,10-11,15,18,21-22 In-Reply-To: <199703171825.NAA12224@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Mon, Mar 17, 1997 at 01:25:32PM -0500 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mar 17, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > >> Alternatively, when can we have proper PCI support that uses the PCI > >> BIOS (if present) to do its dirty work? > > > Why should we want to rely on the PCI BIOS ??? > > 1) Because it actually works. Really ? On all motherboards ? The 32 bit functions ? > 2) Because it supports half-word and byte configuration accesses. You have any use for them ??? Well, they are trivial to provide. But PCI was designed to work with CPUs that don't offer byte accesses (DEC Alpha). If you want byte accesses, you'll get them. But even you didn't ask for them before ... Regards, STefan