From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 1 21:53:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA03601 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:53:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA03596 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 1996 21:53:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA06457; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 06:52:56 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA02953; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 06:52:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id GAA20707; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 06:49:01 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199612020549.GAA20707@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: conf/2130: Installation bug To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 06:49:01 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199612020123.LAA02100@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 2, 96 11:53:10 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > PCI devices should trigger this section of code : > > if (dev->iobase > 0) > { > sprintf(buf,"Port address : 0x%x",dev->iobase); > putxy(1,18,buf); > } else { > if (dev->iobase == -2) /* a PCI device */ > putmsg(" PCI devices are automatically configured."); > } > > in showparams(). They do. > So is the request a change for this message, or a report that this > message doesn't actually appear? (I'm building a new kernel for > the only spammable system we currently have in the workshop, but > I'm a bit distracted just at the moment. 8( ) Well, why do they appear in UserConfig in the first place, if you can't do nothing with them? I thought it was intended that one can change the flags? Anyway, Pedro's (?) suggestion was to make it more obvious to the innocent souls that PCI devices can and will be autoconfigured reliably, so there's no need to mess with them. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)