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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 1999 22:11:07 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        winter@jurai.net (Matthew N. Dodd)
Cc:        jhay@mikom.csir.co.za (John Hay), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: a little newbus problem
Message-ID:  <199907282011.WAA50899@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907281538550.14648-100000@sasami.jurai.net> from "Matthew N. Dodd" at "Jul 28, 1999 03:41:29 pm"

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Nope, it is an ISA driver and I wasn't that brave. :-) It is part of
standard FreeBSD and I just compiled it into the kernel with a kernel
config file.

> Are you by any chance kldload'ing the module for testing?
> 
> If so you should have:
> 
>         DEVMETHOD(bus_driver_added,     bus_generic_driver_added),
> 
> For your 'arc' device_method_t method declaration.
> 
> I got bit by this one too.
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, John Hay wrote:
> > I have been trying to get my ar(4) and sr(4) drivers going again on -current,
> > but it seems that the newbus code doesn't like my little trick that worked
> > for so long. :-(
> > 
> > Basically the drivers are called ar0 in the kernel config file, but in
> > the isa_driver struct I call them arc and not ar, because the chip that
> > is used actually have 2 ports and I register them seperately as ar0 and
> > ar1 during the attach phase.
> > 
> > >From what I can see now, it looks like the newbus code doesn't even
> > call the arprobe routine. I have even added a printf right in the start
> > of it, but it never prints anything. Just as a test I changed my kernel
> > config file and files.i386 from ar to arc and then it works.
> >
> > So what should I do? Can the newbus code be fixed to work in this case
> > too or should I newbusify the drivers and will that help? Won't that
> > create a clash because of the isa compatabilty shim?
> > 

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za


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