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Date:      Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:10:43 +0200
From:      Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        gibbs@FreeBSD.org, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEAD panic with ofw_pcibus.c 1.21 on Blade 100
Message-ID:  <20080902211043.GA21904@alchemy.franken.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080901231604.GH80839@alchemy.franken.de>
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On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:16:04AM +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 03:13:28PM -0600, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> > 
> > If you absolutely have to remove the probe just for sparc, it would
> > be better to figure out how to just avoid compiling in that probe
> > (config spec change "optional isa_nonpnp", or similar?).
> 
> What I think would be the right thing to do in this regard
> is splitting the ISA drivers and bus front-ends into bus
> front-ends for LPC or LPC-like busses (i.e. on-board PNP-
> only/firmware enumerated) and real ISA busses (non-PNP,
> cards in real slots). Though as far as I know there's more
> to LPC in terms of ACPI-probing which I currently don't
> understand and I admit that I'm reluctant to doing that
> much work just to keep a single bus front-end from probing...
> 

Thinking some more about it I decided to work around the
lack of distinction between LPC and real ISA at a different
level.

Marius




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