Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:12:38 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No more floppy drive Message-ID: <412D1CE6.3050603@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20040825.163130.66167637.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <412D0E04.8040701@root.org> <20040825.161733.103236573.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040825222345.GB79209@ip.net.ua> <20040825.163130.66167637.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20040825222345.GB79209@ip.net.ua>
> Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> writes:
> : On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:17:33PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > Generally one doesn't want ANY hints when one has pnpisabios or acpi
> : > supplying the hints, unless one really does have an exceptional device
> : > at that location.
> : >
> : A lot of current@ users report missing /dev/fd0 due to this. Can this
> : be fixed somehow?
>
> acpi should be providing these hints, but it appears that either that
> code isn't working, hasn't been committed or there's no fallback to
> more traditional methods when there's no information about fd drives.
> This is one of the twistiest, nastiest, ugliest part of PCAT :-(
The code I added merely does:
if (_FDE working)
add fd[0-2] children accordingly
if (fdX._FDI working)
set type on fdX
else
unmodified hints probe for fd[0-2]
if (fdX type not set)
unmodified drive type probe via rtc
Since the probe is unmodified if _FDE is not present, I can't see a new
problem here. If this is a new problem, it must be elsewhere.
--
Nate
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