From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 16 17:58:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012F437B66D for ; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA11115; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:56:29 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpdAAA.gaqQv; Mon Oct 16 17:56:22 2000 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA04303; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 17:57:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200010170057.RAA04303@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: ASUS CUBX Motherboard 3rd and 4th IDE channels To: patseal@hyperhost.net (Patrick Seal) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 00:57:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dave@jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20001014231253.A58936@hyperhost.net> from "Patrick Seal" at Oct 14, 2000 11:12:53 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message