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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 00:17:13 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: request for review: bus_alloc_resource(9) 
Message-ID:  <200005190717.AAA07106@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 May 2000 09:12:30 %2B0200." <20000519091230.C2729@cichlids.cichlids.com> 

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> Thus spake Matthew N. Dodd (winter@jurai.net):
> 
> > is just a range; start and length, and a type.  The 'rid' has nothing to
> > do with offsets into a memory/port resource.
> 
> Hmm. When I wrote Doug Rabson about newbus months ago, he gave me that
> part of code:
> 
>         rid = 0x10; /* offset of pci mapping register - check your docs */
>         res = bus_alloc_resource(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORTS, &rid, 0, ~0, 1,    
>                 RF_ACTIVE);
>         st = rman_get_bustag(res);
>         sh = rman_get_bushandle(res); 
> 
> This "offset of the pci mapping register" is quite confusing for me
> then.

Not at all; in the PCI context, that's what the rid is.  As has been said 
several times now, the meaning of the rid is _bus_specific_.
-- 
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\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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