Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 17:16:21 -0400 From: "Donald J . Maddox" <dmaddox@conterra.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: dmaddox@conterra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New PnP code does not work for me(?) Message-ID: <19990926171621.A974@dmaddox.conterra.com> In-Reply-To: <19990926210537.86B141CC3@overcee.netplex.com.au> References: <19990926163659.A707@dmaddox.conterra.com> <19990926210537.86B141CC3@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 05:05:37AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > > The old PnP code was matching on the card vendor ID. The new pnp code > treats each logical device on it's own and matches by logical ID.. > (It's actually far more useful that way as most cards have their own > manufacturer ID but quite often when they are compatable with something > they use that as their logical ID.) Ah, OK... That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the clear, concise explanation. > > For example, there are a zillion Soundblaster PnP compatables with their own > unique vendor ID but with a CTLxxxx ID on the logical device that implements > the sb parts of the card. > > We're not doing this because we enjoy pain and suffering, it's because > it'll be better and more robust in the long run. Unfortunately, there was > no canonical list of logical ID's on the cards we used to recognize. > > So I repeat for the list.. If you've got a card that used to work or does > work under BIOS backwards compat preconfig with 'controller pnp0' disabled, > please send us a dmesg and pnpinfo -v so we can add the ID's. 'controller > pnp0' is quite likely to become non-optional soon so we can use the > motherboard resource lists. Again, thanks for the very helpful and informative answers. I would still appreciate it if someone could give me a little bit more of a clue as to what is necessary to add newPnP-awareness to the AWE driver, though. (Surly and unhelpful responses from Mike Smith specifically NOT solicited) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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