Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:18:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General ata grousing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912231216590.22613-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199912222137.WAA80908@freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:59:30 +0100 (CET), Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> said: > > > > > If you looked at the code, you would see that the ata driver only uses > > > this ugly method when we are dealing with the standard primary & > > > secondary controller which are bound to specific addresses and interrupts. > > > Those are not configurable. > > > > That's why the resource manager allows you to specify a specific range > > of resources. If you want to be sure of getting IRQ 11, specify start > > == end == 11 and length == 1. > > Right, but I think there where problems with that back when dfr did this > code. At any rate this is currently being rewritten (again by dfr) to > handle this better and to make ata register devices as children etc etc. I think the original reason I didn't touch that part of the code was a combination of the fact that I needed two interrupts (primary and secondary controllers) and the desire to leave as much as possible of the code undisturbed. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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