Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 15:12:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: new-bus@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixing ISA device probing Message-ID: <20020829150953.N788-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020827163643.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, John Baldwin wrote:
> Currently we have several types of ISA devices:
> - Devices enumerated by the BIOS. Currently we have two types: those
> enumerated by ACPI and those by the PNPBIOS. These two sets are
> mutually exclusive.
> - PnP ISA devices.
> - ISA devices that only the user can tell us about (currently they can
> use hints to tell us).
We can also have devices that perform their own enumerated either by
probing a list of possible IO addresses and retreiving their config from
the card directly ('ex') or by performing a probe using an isolation
protocol similar ISA PnP ('ep').
I won't get into destructive vs. non-destructive probes.
--
| Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD |
| winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax |
| http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever |
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-new-bus" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020829150953.N788-100000>