Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:09:26 -0500 From: Craig Boston <craig@tobuj.gank.org> To: Alan Garfield <alan@fromorbit.com>, takawata@jp.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resources and ACPI Message-ID: <20070411140926.GB60020@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20070411140214.GA60020@nowhere> References: <200704110951.l3B9p4hT024402@sana.init-main.com> <461CCB3D.1090402@fromorbit.com> <20070411140214.GA60020@nowhere>
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 09:02:14AM -0500, Craig Boston wrote: > If it seems like magic, that's because it is. :) For PnP busses like > PCI, ISAPnP, and ISA-ACPI/LPC-ACPI, the OS takes care of figuring out > what resources to use and allocates them. I almost forgot, the busdma functions work for non-PnP busses like really old ISA cards as well. The only difference is that the user has to specify the resources manually in /boot/device.hints, but there's a standard API for this as well. Craig
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