Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:59:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_xl.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906032357380.423-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199906040350.VAA41156@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906011627090.423-100000@sasami.jurai.net> > "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: > : On this note, is there a way to determine the setting of the BIOS PNP OS > : knob? Windows has to do it somehow... > > I don't think that it is possible generically to do this. There is > some code floating around to deal with calling the PCI BIOS to assign > IRQs to INT lines (or some such) which is a first step... Well, if we could figure out the setting in the BIOS in a deterministic manner we could panic and tell the (l)user to change the setting since having it set to 'YES" will cause problems. (Essentially do what Bill did, but in a more generic and more fatal manner.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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