From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 8 21:55:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (mobile.wemm.org [202.12.86.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8290637B479; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:55:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA95prW18123; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:52:08 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200011090552.eA95prW18123@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Terry Lambert , "Justin T. Gibbs" , Bill Paul , Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vx driver patch In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 13:51:53 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Matthew N. Dodd" wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Maybe it would be possible to have a separate "VLBus" bus that > > went in before the EISA bus? > > 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? Do you want to know what is even funnier? One of my onboard ahc *PCI* controllers (7895 based I think) also responds to the EISA probes if I enable EISA. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message