From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 20 09:51:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29473 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:51:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29390; Wed, 20 May 1998 09:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA00372; Wed, 20 May 1998 08:46:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805201546.IAA00372@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Bruce Evans cc: grog@lemis.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IWill and sio, again and again In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 May 1998 21:05:42 +1000." <199805201105.VAA00260@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 08:46:10 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> I don't know of any correct patch, but the problem can be worked around > >> by ignoring the results of tests 5 and 7. > > Actually tests 5 and 8. > > >On what hardware did you try this? I tried exactly this approach on > >an IWill P55XB2, and it didn't work. > > IForget. The probe can't possibly not work if you ignore the failures > in it. The probe works, but the port doesn't, due to the attach making assumptions about the results of the probe. This is a basic failure in implementation of many probe/attach pairs, which will be exacerbated if/ when the probes are obsoleted by PnP detection. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message