Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 13:05:28 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa <y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp>, Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? Message-ID: <199904061905.NAA17132@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199904061751.KAA27663@boreas.isi.edu> References: <199904061732.LAA16641@mt.sri.com> <199904061751.KAA27663@boreas.isi.edu>
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> Nate Williams wrote: > >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. > > There's a kld version of the pcic code, right? Yes, but it doesn't work correctly because of missing functionality in the KLD implementation. However, your ideas are sound, and a step in the right direction. > We could then set up 2 variables, current unit number and current io > port. The on load the kld reads the variables, sets its unit number > and io port appropraitely and starts up. The sequence for multiple > pcics then looks like > > boot > set sysctls for 1st controller > load 1st controller > set sysctls for 2nd controller > load 2nd controller How do you know how many controllers exist so you can load them? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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