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Date:      Sat, 8 Dec 2001 14:05:28 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        David Rowe <david@voicetronix.com.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Newbie: Driver for PLX9050
Message-ID:  <20011208140528.A16554@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <3C128D82.CBF9DFB3@voicetronix.com.au>; from david@voicetronix.com.au on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:30:34AM %2B1030
References:  <3C11C69B.F2898B1D@voicetronix.com.au> <20011208132933.A6980@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C128D82.CBF9DFB3@voicetronix.com.au>

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On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:30:34AM +1030, David Rowe wrote:
>=20
> > The chip driver is entierly bogus and only claims things that nothing
> > else does.  This generally means that your probe code isn't working
> > correctly because if it were your driver would have claimed this device.
>=20
> As I am installing my driver after boot time (using KLD), the chip
> driver has already claimed the PLX device, and mydriver_probe is not
> presented with the device id for the PLX device.
>=20
> Does this mean I can only install my driver as part of the kernel, not
> using KLD?

No, you can claim PCI devices after boot.  It works fine.  Stick some
printfs in your probe code to be sure it's being called correctly and
what it's being called on.

-- Brooks

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