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Date:      Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:43:47 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is it supposed to be this broken?
Message-ID:  <20010331194347.I9431@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:06:39AM -0800
References:  <20010331021512.H9431@fw.wintelcom.net> <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org>

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* Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> [010331 12:41] wrote:
> > 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)

You mean it's impossible to disable lpt/floppy in a pnp system 
and use thier IRQs for anything else unless you remove the drivers
from the kernel?

Why?

Also, is there any system in place so that I can tell a device to
go away?  (one that isn't pccard/cardbus) ?

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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