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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 2002 22:50:12 +0200
From:      Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
To:        Dan Larsson <dl@tyfon.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Activating a PCI function before driver probe?
Message-ID:  <20020921225012.A1519@armor.fastether>
In-Reply-To: <20020827233627.S76730-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>; from dl@tyfon.net on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:01:15AM %2B0200
References:  <20020827233627.S76730-100000@hq1.tyfon.net>

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On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 12:01:15AM +0200, Dan Larsson wrote:
> While trying to get hardware monitoring to work on my computer I
> found the below procedure to enable the smbus device.
> 
> It didn't get me any closer to actually monitoring the hardware with
> xbmon, lmmon or healthd. But the device is there.
> 
> Can this probe/tweak be done during boot somehow? I'd gladly try out
> patches:-) Please CC me as I'm not on the freebsd-hackers list.

Your chipset should be supported by ichsmb(4).

Doesn't your bios provide you the activation of the function?

The ichsmb is not responsible for activating the function. This is
a PCI hack that must be done before probe of devices/drivers.

Any clue others?

Nicolas

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Nicholas Souchu - nsouch@free.fr - nsouch@FreeBSD.org

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