From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 13 19:35:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04866 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:35:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04857 for ; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:35:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA06836; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:35:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd006792; Thu Aug 13 19:35:12 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA25965; Thu, 13 Aug 1998 19:35:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808140235.TAA25965@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: developing device drivers To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 02:35:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hm@kts.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980814113852.J1921@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 14, 98 11:38:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I think Hellmuth brought up an important issue which you don't appear > to have covered: sure, it's easy enough to probe. But some probes are > destructive, and if you don't know what's already been taken, you're > liable to kill some other device while messing around looking for your > devices. Is there some list which contains information about what > resources are already assigned to other drivers? Yes. Otherwise PCMCIA cards couldn't work. That's why I specifically referenced them. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message