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To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? 
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Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 22:21:37 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199805061517.JAA05337@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes:
: Things is, this falls really short for non-ISA/non-PnP devices as well.
: Think hot-swappable devices, and devices that *really* no one knows
: about?  Also, devices that can use IRQ's, but don't necessarily need
: them.  How do you say 'go ahead and use it', vs. 'don't bother'.

One of the hardest things to do right now with the pccard code in
FreeBSD -current is to figure out what interrupts you have available.
dmesg doesn't quite tell you since there are oddball thinks like
unsupported sound chips and the like that just don't show up there.
There should be some way to do this generically.

Warner

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