Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 04:44:44 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.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: <370A642C.85C5484E@newsguy.com> References: <199904061751.KAA27663@boreas.isi.edu>
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Ted Faber wrote: > > There's a kld version of the pcic code, right? Can we use that to our It seems it doesn't work though. Even though there were reports of it been succesfully used. > <bizarre idea> > > boot > set sysctl variables > load the kld > > 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 > > etc. Looks terrible to me. :-) I rather have it done through loader: loader kernel load pcic irq=NN io=NNNN ... load pcic irq=NN io=NNNN ... But, then again, I work with loader, so I'm biased... :-) -- 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
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