Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 12:18:44 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed Message-ID: <200005271918.MAA00691@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 May 2000 15:09:40 EDT." <200005271908.PAA20241@etinc.com>
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> At 09:54 AM 5/27/00 +0200, John Hay wrote: > >> In message <200005261723.NAA16495@etinc.com> Dennis writes: > >> : My 4.0 system doesnt probe ISA devices on my system. > >> : > >> : Whats the trick? Is there a config requirement with old-style drivers? > >> > >> They probe great for me. what, specifically, isn't probing? > > > >He is probably talking about their own driver. In that case you have to > >add it to /sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.* or bite the bullet and new-busify > >it. > > Yes....Whose brainstorm was it to use the new convoluted bus nonsense in > FreeBSD 4.0? Clearly someone who never wrote a driver with a complex > controller with indexed memory mapped registers.Whats next, assembler drivers? While you're still rummaging for the Kynar and the wire-wrap tool, the rest of the universe has moved on. Sorry about that, but if we're going to hope to support your hardware, let alone anyone else's, on a machine that was built after paisely manual covers went out of vogue, we need a bus architecture to match. I spend a goodly amount of time supporting vendors writing drivers for FreeBSD, and so far you're about the only curmudgeon that hasn't realised under their own power the advantages of a structured design. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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