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Date:      Sun, 09 Sep 2001 14:28:26 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Bsdguru@aol.com
Cc:        imp@harmony.village.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PCI probe reordering? 
Message-ID:  <200109092128.f89LSQh01403@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Sep 2001 12:44:19 EDT." <146.14cf6de.28ccf663@aol.com> 

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> Also, which routing specifically implements the probe calls to drivers? 

device_probe_and_attach

> Another option is to probe the wired device first explicitly, and then  skip 
> it in the normal probe scan.  In linux there is a clearly defined routine 
> that does this, but i havent found it in freebsd yet.

The entire PCI probe/attach process is going to have to change, however I 
don't see it changing all that much.  It is hard to detect devices that 
are "onboard" as opposed to being in physical slots, and there is no 
consistent mechanism that one can take to always get them "first".

In short, what you're asking for is difficult to achieve consistently, 
and not really worth the effort.  Your onboard ethernet is fxp1.  Deal 
with it.

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