Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:57:31 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org, dennis@etinc.com Subject: Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed (fwd) Message-ID: <20000527155731.V86725@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271551120.39048-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from scanner@jurai.net on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 03:51:24PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271551120.39048-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 03:51:24PM -0400, dennis@etinc.com wrote: > 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? [...] > 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? [...] > 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? It's these kinds of close-minded, stupid-ass comments that make me giggle with delight as I buy from lanmedia instead of etinc for T1 cards. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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