From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 26 16:25:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA13873 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:25:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from awfulhak.org (awfulhak.force9.co.uk [195.166.136.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA13853; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 16:25:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (root@woof.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.7]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA27526; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:25:01 GMT (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from woof.lan.awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woof.lan.awfulhak.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id AAA10745; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:25:06 GMT (envelope-from brian@woof.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199810270025.AAA10745@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Roger Hardiman cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCIC_IRQ - disabling PCMCIA IRQ allocation In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Oct 1998 18:06:59 GMT." <3634BA43.94BC672C@cs.strath.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:25:04 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hi, > > One of the things PAO hase which the 3.0-RELEASE PCMCIA code does not > have is the > PCIC_IRQ kernel configuration. > > With it, it is possible to tell the PCMCIA card controller NOT to > reserve itself an IRQ. > This means no hot swapping of cards, but for my application (embedded > systems) I cannot hot > swap and I do not want an IRQ wasted by the card chipset. > > The patch for 3.0-RELEASE is trivial to include the PCIC_IRQ code > (basically it forces a value in the > pcic.c code). > > Is someone willing to commit this to -current if I supply the diff. > > It will then complete all my PCMCIA needs without needing the full PAO > package. I'm willing to if 1. You can also specify the IRQ that the controller should use. 2. Either Nate or Mike OKs it (I'll pass it to them for review first - they're our resident laptop people). > Bye > Roger Hardiman > Strathclyde University Telepresence Group Cheers. -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message