Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:27:05 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: fix pnpinfo on arch=amd64 Message-ID: <201010251027.06059.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20101025133437.GA72669@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <20101024002248.GA73346@freebsd.org> <201010250845.47794.jhb@freebsd.org> <20101025133437.GA72669@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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On Monday, October 25, 2010 9:34:37 am Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 08:45:47AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:22:48 pm Alexander Best wrote: > > > this tiny patch will fix pnpinfo so it doesn't core dump (bus error) any > > > longer on arch=amd64. > > > > This utility isn't really useful on amd64 though. No amd64 machines have ISA > > slots in which to place an ISA PnP adapter. > > Are you really sure about that? > > See http://www.ibase.com.tw/2009/mb945.htmL or > http://www.adek.com/ATX-motherboards.html for what certainly looks like > counter-examples. Hmm, well, I suspect in this case these boards exist to support really ancient custom hardware. If you are stuck with one of these, then manually needing to fix up pnpinfo.c is probably the least of your problems. However, I strongly doubt that FreeBSD users are lining up to buy these motherboards so they can use an ISA SB16 adapter with FreeBSD/amd64. I was not aware of these boards previously, but I still doubt that pnpinfo is relevant to any FreeBSD/amd64 users. -- John Baldwin
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