Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 15:06:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: David Rowe <david@voicetronix.com.au> Cc: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie: Driver for PLX9050 Message-ID: <200112082306.fB8N63T02639@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2001 08:30:34 %2B1030." <3C128D82.CBF9DFB3@voicetronix.com.au>
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> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Does this mean I can only install my driver as part of the kernel, not
> using KLD?
You really have two problems; the vendor hasn't configured the PLX part
correctly, so it's not coming up as a device, and secondly the 'chip'
driver is totally bogus.
You can still build as a KLD, but you may be forced to load at boot time.
The 'chip' driver has been ditched, but you're stuck with regard to older
releases (probably the entire 4.x family).
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