Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 17:12:17 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbussifying drivers Message-ID: <200106110012.f5B0CH202578@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jun 2001 12:50:03 MDT." <200106101850.f5AIo3l21071@billy-club.village.org>
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> One big area we need to clean up is PNPBIOS devices. They should be
> probed *FIRST* before anything else (which is hard because the isa bus
> gets attached late on pci systems).
This isn't actually such a problem; the space in which PNPBIOS devices
tend to have their resources allocated is protected from abuse by other
drivers (PCI won't allocate space in the 'ISA preferred' space).
> We'd need to update our drivers
> in the tree, plus there's the "hints vs pnp" issue where some people
> want to specify hints to wire a device unit (eg, the sio that's at
> address 0xXXXX should be sio9). This is one rats nest that's still
> around that is going to be hard to solve.
Wiring stuff sensibly seems to just be a few millimetres beyond reach,
forever. 8(
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