Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:47:19 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jay Kuri <jay@oneway.com>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802214431.04609df0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200008030328.VAA27596@nomad.yogotech.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802140411.05180a70@localhost> <200008020116.SAA15805@mina.soco.agilent.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000801154059.04c50b80@localhost> <20000802110407.F36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20000803094307.Q36094@wantadilla.lemis.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000802184929.053c22f0@localhost>
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At 09:28 PM 8/2/2000, Nate Williams wrote: >> The PC Card software should, by default, choose available interrupts >> for PC Cards by default. > >And how would it do that, given that FreeBSD doesn't have drivers for >at least one or two pieces of hardware in the laptops, as well as the >fact that many drivers require BIOS support to work correctly. It can still tell which IRQs are available. The BIOS doesn't need to be involved; ISA probes and PnP tell the story. >WinXX gets away with this because it can call BIOS functions, and >hardware vendors supply their own drivers to the OS vendor. > >WinNT has the same sorts of problems we do, which is why NT is not well >supported on laptops, and Win2K has even poorer support. > >And don't give me the "Linux works" Why not? Linux works because it takes a more sensible approach to IRQ allocation for the PC Card sockets. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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