From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 12 13:50:37 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA28124 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:50:37 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28112 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 13:50:28 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA29533; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 21:50:19 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA08496; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 21:50:19 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA13781; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 21:43:02 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199510122043.VAA13781@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: I/O port 0 == autoconfig? To: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 21:43:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Frank Durda IV" at Oct 12, 95 08:38:00 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 436 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Frank Durda IV wrote: > > At least one place where this strategy has conflicted is the matcd driver. > It used -1 for the I/O port to signify that it would probe a list > of "known" locations for that hardware, rather than requiring the > user to know. Same for "lpt". -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)