From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Apr 6 10:48:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 044F314E3E for ; Tue, 6 Apr 1999 10:48:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) id CAA11686; Wed, 7 Apr 1999 02:46:07 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <370A4782.B3C61AB7@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 02:42:26 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nate Williams Cc: Ted Faber , NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa , Nick Sayer , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? References: <199904061711.LAA16507@mt.sri.com> <199904061725.KAA25490@boreas.isi.edu> <199904061732.LAA16641@mt.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nate Williams wrote: > > > I see a sysctl variable (I think) in the probe routine used to allow > > the suer to select the management irq. How about adding one or more > > to select the IO ports for the controller? Is this the same variable mentioned in loader(8)? > This was my idea about a 'boot' config line. The problems with this > solution is: > > 1) It assumes there is one PCIC controller. (The existing code has the > same problem) > 2) It not 'boot-time' configurable. It requires you to edit a file and > then reboot the box before the change can take place. Sure it is configurable at boot time. Stop the loader, set the variable, proceed. Something like the visual userconfig can be written, at the time it becomes an issue. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "nothing better than the ability to perform cunning linguistics" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message