Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:21:06 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: dwcjr@inethouston.net, scott_long@btc.adaptec.com, mobile@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESS sound card support on laptop Message-ID: <20020615.152106.113171816.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <3D0BA5ED.2B90C628@mindspring.com> References: <20020615195942.GA86478@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020615.142650.92539527.imp@village.org> <3D0BA5ED.2B90C628@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" wrote:
: > In message: <20020615195942.GA86478@leviathan.inethouston.net>
: > "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> writes:
: > : pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> irq 5 at device 14.0 on pci0
: > : pcm0: unable to map register space
: > : device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
: >
: > FreeBSD should, but isn't, assign resources to PCI devices. In the
: > past, the BIOS has done this, but MS has migrated this functionality
: > into the OS. That's why you see a lot of these sorts of failures with
: > various kludges in the FreeBSD tree. That's part of what I was
: > talking about in the developers conference when I said we needed to
: > make PCI work again :-)
:
: So if you have a machine without any MS software installed, and
: have thereby denied the opportunity for "MS" to migrate "this
: functionality into the OS", how does it get migrated?
We write it. It isn't in the BIOS anymore. Usually with ACPI.
Warner
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