From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Aug 2 20:48: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D9C737B5D0; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA25569; Wed, 2 Aug 2000 21:47:22 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000802214431.04609df0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:47:19 -0600 To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Dell Inspiron Cc: Greg Lehey , Darryl Okahata , Mike Smith , Jay Kuri , hardware@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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