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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





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