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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI
To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser)
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 12:59:17 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <199601011951.AA17943@Sysiphos> from "Stefan Esser" at Jan 1, 96 08:51:51 pm
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> I'll probably make the "no driver assigned" message go away
> for all kinds of support chips (CPU to PCI bridge, standard
> ISA peripherals, ...), since those can be identified by their
> PCI class code. (This is already done for PCI graphics cards.)

NetBSD has a very large database for this in their current code.

It is actually probably too large, IMO.

We need ELF or some other mechanism for segment identification to
enable kernel paging.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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