Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 05:06:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it supposed to be this broken? Message-ID: <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 31 Mar 2001 02:15:12 PST." <20010331021512.H9431@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> This is cute...
>
> If you disable a device using /boot/device.hints like so:
> hint.ppc.0.disabled="1"
> hint.ppc.1.disabled="1"
> hint.ppbus.0.disabled="1"
> hint.ppbus.1.disabled="1"
>
> you get this:
> ppc1: <ECP parallel printer port> at port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on
> isa0
That's because the PnP entity is still matched. You can't disable PnP
devices; it just doesn't work that way. 8)
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