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Date:      Wed, 22 Jul 1998 14:35:45 +0900 (JST)
From:      HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp>
To:        gram@cdsec.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building a kernel with PCI devices
Message-ID:  <199807220535.OAA12647@stone.astec.co.jp>
In-Reply-To: Graham Wheeler's message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:22:43 %2B0200 (SAT)" <199807211322.PAA03583@cdsec.com>
References:  <199807211322.PAA03583@cdsec.com>

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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?

- nao

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