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Date:      Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:13:16 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems getting WaveLAN device (wi0) working 
Message-ID:  <200009212213.QAA08135@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009212211.PAA02085@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <200009212150.PAA07960@nomad.yogotech.com> <200009212211.PAA02085@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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> > > > FreeBSD sometimes seems to mis-assign resources 
> > > > already in use.
> > > 
> > > This is incorrect.
> > 
> > No, this is true.  The mobile code sometimes screws up, and attempts to
> > re-use an already active resource. 
> 
> This doesn't constitute "mis-assigning" a resource, since when pccardd 
> submits the resource assignment to the kernel, it will be rejected by the 
> resource manager (and thus the resources are not mis-assigned).
> 
> > And, it's not just the mobile code.
> > Often because FreeBSD has no driver for a particular piece of hardware,
> > it's unaware of the resources being used by a piece of hardware (a
> > CardBus controller, or an unsupported sound card), so it assumes
> > (wrongly) that the resources it is using are free, when in fact the
> > hardware is still using the resources despite the fact there is no
> > driver for them.
> 
> This is also incorrect.
> 
> FreeBSD doesn't "assign" resources for anything at this point in time, 
> with the dubious exception of pccardd.

Umm, last I looked, this was the 'mobile' list, which implies the use of
the pccardd, and it's corresponding kernel code.



Nate


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