From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 27 12:42:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DF9F37B9AD for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 12:42:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12vmTY-0002G9-0U; Sat, 27 May 2000 20:42:24 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA62198; Sat, 27 May 2000 20:49:28 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 20:47:50 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Dennis Cc: John Hay , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed In-Reply-To: <200005271908.PAA20241@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dennis wrote: > 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? Mine. > > isa_compat.h? LOL...what college freshman thought of that? Is it really > that difficult to have the prefix_probe() function called based on the > config file? This is just a list of drivers using the legacy apis. Since no new drivers will be using those apis, this file will gradualy disappear and certainly no new drivers will be added to it. > > Its seems rather humorous that the "generic" bus implementation requires > that isa drivers be hacked into the kernel with a build-time include. Very > humorous indeed. Is this a temporary condition as was the deboggle in v3.0? Whatever. > > any docs on this junk? RTFM. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message