From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 5 16:44:03 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA11059 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 16:44:03 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA11051 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 16:44:01 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id JAA24958; Wed, 6 Sep 1995 09:18:37 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199509052348.JAA24958@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: devinfo - Houston, we have a small crisis here.. To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 09:18:36 +0930 (CST) Cc: wollman@lcs.mit.edu, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199509051559.AA05330@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Sep 5, 95 05:59:30 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1247 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Stefan Esser stands accused of saying: > I'm ready to change whatever is necessary, to have > the PCI code correctly register things. But I'm not > going to accept that PCI devices are dealt with as > if they were ISA devices. They aren't and I'm glad > it is that way. > > I am open to discussion. A couple of things that have come out of some work I've done recently with regard to PCI devices (and ISA devices as well for that matter). - It should be possible to disable a PCI device before it is probed. - It should be possible to extract the long description of a driver (PCI, ISA, Multibus or S100 for that matter) _before_ it is probed. And with regard to ISA devices in particular, the should be a bitfield that indicates which of the parameters for a driver are configurable. > Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[