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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
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Subject: Re: newbussifying drivers
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I don;t know why people always forget it, but also look 
at the sample driver in -current.
/usr/share/examples/drivers/make_device_driver.sh
(the 4.x version is way out of date)



On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote:

> j mckitrick wrote:
> > 
> > Okay, there is something i'm not understanding here.  In the ed driver,
> > there are many possible cards, which each have different i/o ports, correct?
> > The driver has a lot of probe routines, and it looks like they are just
> > using different macros with hard-coded (#defined) port addresses.
> > 
> > So, how do you CORRECTLY use the newbus calls to probe these ports?  I am
> > not running -current, so i do not have 'hints'.
> 
> As Doug Rabson said, write an 'identify' routine. Look at the
> ep driver for an example. And my artile in DaemonNews
> (www.daemonnews.org) from I think August 2000 or somewhere around
> that time gives some description of the newbussified ISA drivers.
> It should also be included into the Handbook by now.
> 
> -SB
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