From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 3 8:17:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3AC637B548 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:17:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA75869; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:16:52 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 11:16:51 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Don Lewis Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-CURRENT hangs in ex_isa_identify() (was: current hangs during boot if ET/5025-16 card is installed) In-Reply-To: <200003030947.BAA09126@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> 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 Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Don Lewis wrote: > What really sucks is that there is no way to disable the ex driver > at boot time, so the standard install floppies can no longer be used > to boot a box that contains one of these ET cards. > > Should the ex driver be doing all this stuff at identify time, or was > the older method of doing this at probe time more correct? Thats really the only place for such a routine. What needs to happen is for if_ex to a little more selective about which addresses it probes. While it is using a non-destructive probe (see look_for_card()) it should also use the resource manager to check and see if a port is assigned before it does anything else. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message