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Date:      Thu, 21 May 1998 18:09:19 -0700
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        Vinay Bannai <bannai@best.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Probing a PCI device!! 
Message-ID:  <199805220109.SAA27009@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 21 May 1998 17:48:32 -0700 (PDT) 
 Vinay Bannai <bannai@best.com> wrote:

 > I am trying to probe a PCI device and I am in the odd situation where the
 > firmware has to be downloaded onto the card before I can check the
 > Vendor/Device ID. It is set by the firmware..
 > 
 > How do I solve the chicken and egg problem? Or am I missing something?

Yow.  What device is this?!  Seems.... rather braindead.  _Something_ has
to be there, or else how does the system console firmware (in the PC world,
the BIOS) know to configure the card's mapping registers and route its
interrupt?

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