Date: Thu, 7 Sep 1995 13:28:42 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: pete@puffin.pelican.com (Pete Carah) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting around conflicts for a driver w/out base address Message-ID: <199509072028.NAA00639@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <m0sqkfu-0000ReC@puffin.pelican.com> from "Pete Carah" at Sep 7, 95 10:23:00 am
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> > In article <199509040622.QAA10078@godzilla.zeta.org.au> you write: > ... > >id_alive is the driver-alive flag corrupted to hold the i/o size. It isn't > >possible to set it at config time. Actually, we need a list of i/o port > >ranges because some drivers use scattered ports. > > Like the S3 chips that step on COM4? Talk about gratuitous conflicts... Though I agree that this is a rather nasty situation, the problem is not due to S3, it is casued by IBM's VGA register specifaction :-(. No one but no one ever uses those darn registers and I wish S3 would drop them, but that would voliate the compliance of the board to an official IBM spec :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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