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Date:      Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:57:58 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        patseal@hyperhost.net (Patrick Seal)
Cc:        dave@jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ASUS CUBX Motherboard 3rd and 4th IDE channels
Message-ID:  <200010170057.RAA04303@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001014231253.A58936@hyperhost.net> from "Patrick Seal" at Oct 14, 2000 11:12:53 PM

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> > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 4.1.1, off floppy, brand new CUBX
> > motherboard with the 4 IDE channels. It's a GENERIC kernel, so I've done
> > nothing to it yet.
>  
> GENERIC:
> device      ata0    at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
> device      ata1    at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
> 
> notice the lack of ata2 and ata3.
> 
> I have no idea what irq to use though.

Kind of begs the question: why is this stuff still statically
allocated in "config" anyway, since it's PnP known to the
system, and so could be configured dynamically.

The only argument for this, I guess, is to allow you to
leave the controller and driver out of a kernel entirely?

It seems to me that the same effect could be had by ensuring
that said drivers were in their own ELF sections, and that
that space be reclaimed, should a device not be found.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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