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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 21:58:30 +0200
From: Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp>, gram@cdsec.com
Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Building a kernel with PCI devices
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On 1998-07-22 14:35 +0900, HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp> wrote:
> gram writes:
> >I was just wondering: if one is creating a config file for a kernel
> >that should support multiple 3Com 3C59x NICs, should one have multiple 
> >vx entries in the config? I have built a kernel with:
> >
> >  device vx0
> >  device vx1
> >  device vx2
> >
> >The resulting kernel does support multiple cards, but I thought that
> >it may be possible to use just a single vx entry and still be able to
> >support multiple cards. The same question applies to the tx, fxp and
> >de drivers. Does anyone know?
> 
> For some historical reasons, the vx driver needs explicit declaration
> in the config file to use multiple NICs. This can be fixed quite
> easily, I suppose. Shold I?

Yes, please go ahead. I made the necessary changes to the 
NE2000 and Lance drivers long ago, and I had assumed that 
all other PCI devices already dynamically allocated per 
device structs as required.

Regards, STefan

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