From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 27 12:57:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C46E37B568 for ; Sat, 27 May 2000 12:57:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0DF841C5C; Sat, 27 May 2000 15:57:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 27 May 2000 15:57:31 -0400 From: Bill Fumerola 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> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from scanner@jurai.net on Sat, May 27, 2000 at 03:51:24PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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