From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Nov 23 4:10: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 610BA37B405 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 04:10:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fANCA3221765; Fri, 23 Nov 2001 04:10:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 04:10:03 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200111231210.fANCA3221765@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bruce Evans Subject: Re: kern/32169: kernel option to enable PCI devices on machines with negligent BIOS Reply-To: Bruce Evans Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/32169; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans To: Tony Finch Cc: Subject: Re: kern/32169: kernel option to enable PCI devices on machines with negligent BIOS Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 23:02:01 +1100 (EST) On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Tony Finch wrote: > >Description: > > The BIOS doesn't activate the IO ports and memory of the PCI devices, > and neither does FreeBSD, so none of them can be used. There is an > unsupported option in FreeBSD that does the job, which the patch > below makes more visible. > > >How-To-Repeat: > >Fix: > ... This fix is already in -current, except it is in the wrong options files (in only 2 of 6 machine-dependent options files, but this option is machine-independent). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message