Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 21:58:16 +1700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bugs@ns1.win.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -cur boot hangs since may 1 Message-ID: <199506010458.VAA03735@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199505172031.GAA28969@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 18, 95 06:31:33 am
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> > >If you disable ie0 during a '-c' boot dialog (or build a kernel without ie0) > >then things work great. > > >All my boxes have ep0 cards so I have been an unhappy boy for many days. > > >I am looking at the probe technique in the ie0 driver to see what has > >been changed. It may be confusing the 3c509 card. > > This is a known bug and was worked around in revision 1.20 (1994/11/18) > of GENERIC. > > Log: > Put ie0 above ep0. Otherwise, the ie0 probe clobbers it. > > The work around was broken by sorting the devices in revision 1.38 > (1995/04/08). Thanks for the leg work Bruce, I have commited what I think should fix this and document it well enough that it does not happen until some one fixes these probes up to not smash each other. > The conflict is probably because if_ie.c uses port ELINK_ID_PORT which > is defined in elink.h as 0x100 and if_ep.c uses port EP_ID_PORT which > is defined in if_epreg.h as 0x100. The conflict is not detected because > use of these ports is not recorded in the config file (there is no room > for it) and the base ports don't conflict. The conflict is not obvious > in isa.h because few or no network ports are recorded there. > > Bruce > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD
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