From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 15 15:21:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net (goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF24837B408; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0040.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.40] helo=mindspring.com) by goose.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17JLvb-0007DW-00; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:21:51 -0700 Message-ID: <3D0BBDD5.86243D8A@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:21:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: dwcjr@inethouston.net, scott_long@btc.adaptec.com, mobile@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ESS sound card support on laptop References: <20020615195942.GA86478@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020615.142650.92539527.imp@village.org> <3D0BA5ED.2B90C628@mindspring.com> <20020615.152106.113171816.imp@village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > : > FreeBSD should, but isn't, assign resources to PCI devices. In the > : > past, the BIOS has done this, but MS has migrated this functionality > : > into the OS. That's why you see a lot of these sorts of failures with > : > various kludges in the FreeBSD tree. That's part of what I was > : > talking about in the developers conference when I said we needed to > : > make PCI work again :-) > : > : So if you have a machine without any MS software installed, and > : have thereby denied the opportunity for "MS" to migrate "this > : functionality into the OS", how does it get migrated? > > We write it. It isn't in the BIOS anymore. Usually with ACPI. That was kind of my point to David: blaming MS doesn't make FreeBSD work. At some point, you have to accept that the problem is yours, rather than being caused by some outside agency. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message