From owner-cvs-share Fri Dec 27 02:26:23 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA13559 for cvs-share-outgoing; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 02:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id CAA13551; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 02:26:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id UAA27611; Fri, 27 Dec 1996 20:55:54 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199612271025.UAA27611@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/doc/handbook hw.sgml In-Reply-To: <199612270813.QAA02634@spinner.DIALix.COM> from Peter Wemm at "Dec 27, 96 04:13:47 pm" To: peter@spinner.dialix.com (Peter Wemm) Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 20:55:53 +1030 (CST) Cc: obrien@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-share@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-share@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter Wemm stands accused of saying: > > BTW, does anybody remember what happened to the PCI code that was written > to recognise and report on the 430HX and 430VX chipsets? Around here they > are coming up as things like "generic pci bridge" or just the Intel name > with no settings (when using -v that is). I asked around about this a little while back, and got various code fragments and pointers (mostly to the NetBSD code). The eventual result was that Stefan Esser is working on a revamp of the whole shebang, and that most of the register-dumping is likely to be moved out into a userland utility. So I stopped worrying about it and went elsewhere 8) > -Peter -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[