From owner-cvs-all Thu Jun 3 20:59:21 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B2014D91; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 20:59:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA07227; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:59:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:59:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Warner Losh Cc: Bill Paul , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_xl.c In-Reply-To: <199906040350.VAA41156@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message > "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