Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:22:51 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatibility list Message-ID: <23934.921003771@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:01:09 MST." <199903091801.LAA03266@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199903091801.LAA03266@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <22837.920977696@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: One "minor detail" is that all drivers should be probe/attached >: AFTER the kernel is in "normal state", ie, with timeouts and >: interrupts working and all that. (Alert people will have noticed >: that Sorens new ata driver does this :-) > >As does CAM :-) No, CAM spends a lot of time before that point detecting hardware, but it doesn't probe the busses until after that point. Sorens driver goes a little further than that. >There are many areas where dynamic interrupts are hard to do due to >the various masks that we have in the kernel. Some devices like to be >in multiple masks. Another bridge to build, cross and burn... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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