From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 8 10:14:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA09780 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:14:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (d182-89.uoregon.edu [128.223.182.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA09760 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:14:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA07802; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:12:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19980108101248.08714@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:12:48 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: daniel_sobral@voga.com.br Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make_device_driver.sh References: <83256586.00423625.00@papagaio.voga.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <83256586.00423625.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>; from daniel_sobral@voga.com.br on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:04:24AM -0300 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk daniel_sobral@voga.com.br scribbled this message on Jan 8: > > > well... not to discourage you from working on examples, > > but there isn't any way to dynamicly load an isa device > > driver, but you can do that with pci devices though... > > Why is that? because the code is missing this functionality... and requires the hard coded configuration obtained from ioconf.c (via config(8))... now you could hard code everything and just access the hardware, but that would just be ugly... also, there isn't a way to access the routine to initally config an isa device (but you can reconfig it).. I'm not sure on the pci side of things but Stefan Esser should know or have an example for it (actually, one of the drivers is suppose to support it)... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD