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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:37:27 +0100 (CET)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Cc:        wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: General ata grousing
Message-ID:  <199912222137.WAA80908@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <199912222111.QAA01585@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Dec 22, 1999 04:11:23 pm"

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It seems Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:59:30 +0100 (CET), Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> said:
> 
> > If you looked at the code, you would see that the ata driver only uses
> > this ugly method when we are dealing with the standard primary & 
> > secondary controller which are bound to specific addresses and interrupts.
> > Those are not configurable.
> 
> That's why the resource manager allows you to specify a specific range
> of resources.  If you want to be sure of getting IRQ 11, specify start
> == end == 11 and length == 1.

Right, but I think there where problems with that back when dfr did this
code. At any rate this is currently being rewritten (again by dfr) to
handle this better and to make ata register devices as children etc etc.

-Søren


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