From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 12 15:26:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3396F37B401 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from intruder.bmah.org ([24.176.204.87]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010712222628.FTVS18257.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@intruder.bmah.org>; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:26:28 -0700 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.11.4/8.11.3) id f6CMQSH06998; Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200107122226.f6CMQSH06998@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/09/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Kevin Oberman" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New Option ROM device in stable In-Reply-To: <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net> References: <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net> Comments: In-reply-to "Kevin Oberman" message dated "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:49:51 -0700." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1947848892P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:26:28 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-1947848892P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > I notice that a new device, "Option ROM", has appeared in stable as of > a few days ago. No man page, but the driver makes me think it's to > solve the problem of properly assigning memory space for device iomem. > > Is this what it's all about? The release notes are your friend... :-) # An orm(4) device has been added to claim the option ROMs in the ISA # memory I/O space, to prevent other drivers from mistakenly assigning # addresses that conflict with these ROMs. For some reason, when I wrote this up (from the commit logs) I thought there was a manpage for this, but it looks like I was mistaken. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1947848892P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7TiQT2MoxcVugUsMRAhzNAJ44DBs9nqcR3/9Q+yoHW+Aj6Z9cDQCfWaB4 /mY3Z+BTxelTvrkpCbneFy4= =ySOL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1947848892P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message