From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 18 00:51:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA12922 for current-outgoing; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:51:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA12898 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 00:50:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA02987 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:50:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA16594; Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:46:37 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 09:46:37 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ep0 in GENERIC References: <199702180624.RAA30076@godzilla.zeta.org.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702180624.RAA30076@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Feb 18, 1997 17:24:45 +1100 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bruce Evans wrote: > >Sorry, I cannot figure out what you meant by this. Can you expand on > >it? > > The probe does outb's to ports that aren't even in its claimed range > of addresses, without checking that no other driver is using the ports. It does this regardless of whether we specify an explicit IO addr and IRQ or not. So using `port ? irq ?' doesn't make things worse. -- 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. ;-)