From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 8 14:57:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from aslan.scsiguy.com (aslan.scsiguy.com [63.229.232.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397D837B4CF; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 14:57:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from aslan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aslan.scsiguy.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eA8Mv6a78134; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 15:57:06 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from gibbs@aslan.scsiguy.com) Message-Id: <200011082257.eA8Mv6a78134@aslan.scsiguy.com> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Terry Lambert , Bill Paul , Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vx driver patch In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2000 17:47:58 EST." Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:57:06 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I'm still not clear as to why we need to differentiate them. There really >is no requirement that slot 0 be present (other than it being standard and >all.) > >Can we even tell if which EISA devices are really VL devices in disguise? The only reason is to return the EISA probe to a read-only probe. The ahc VL cards require that their ID0 register be written too prior to reading the ID byte. This isn't required for true EISA cards and may prove harmful to other devices that just happen to be in that space. For instance, some PCI devices can be identified as EISA cards if you probe the full EISA bus blindly. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message