Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:31:29 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: General ata grousing Message-ID: <19991223143129.14CD71CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Message from Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> of "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:37:27 %2B0100." <199912222137.WAA80908@freebsd.dk>
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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.
Just as a BTW, dfr and sos are exchanging patches right now (and have been
for quite a few days) that happen to fix the inthand_add() stuff.
Cheers,
-Peter
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