Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:45:16 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: "John H. Baldwin" <jobaldwi@cslab.vt.edu> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, n_hibma@freebsd.org, freebsd-new-bus@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alpha USB difficulties... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005102043510.47945-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005101029240.96963-100000@snowcow.cslab.vt.edu>
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On Wed, 10 May 2000, John H. Baldwin wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Doug Rabson wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 9 May 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > Ok, done. For lack of a better name, I just renamed the functions to
> > > cia_tsunami_{setup,teardown}_intr(), and patched the cia and tsunami
> > > driver appropriately. Latest patch is at the same place as the others.
> >
> > The patch looks good. I'm not too keen on the name
> > cia_tsunami_*_intr(). Maybe something more generic like
> > alpha_pci_{setup,teardown}_intr().
>
> alpha_platform_pci_*_intr is what I went with similar to the IDE intr
> functions.
>
> > The code in pci_alloc_resource which looks for the ISA range should be
> > conditional on NISA>0 so that the file can work even if ISA is not
> > built. Apart from that, it looks ready to commit.
>
> Well.... I did this, but probably NISA should be checked in
> alpha_platform_pci_*_intr. I tried to test it, but right now you can't
> build a kernel without ISA support. I did manage to pair down GENERIC to
> a kernel without any ISA devices or ISA support, but I still get several
> link errors at the end of the build in several chipset drivers, and also
> for things like 'comconsole' in a lt of drivers. So, getting a non-ISA
> compile will take a good chunk of work after this if people want
> it. Unless there are any objections, I'll commit the latest patch (at the
> normal place) when I get back from my last final in a few hours.
I think the only platform which is likely to be able to work without ISA
is the 8200. I only mentioned it since people have been trying to keep
that file working with NISA==0.
Thanks for working on this. Its been one of those irritating small jobs
that I never got around to doing.
--
Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037
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