Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:15:49 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Edwin Mons <e.mons@spcgroup.nl>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ep0 incorrectly probed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001271514410.462-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20000127201023.E3E961C03@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > pnpinfo doesn't have anything to do with what the kernel thinks. It's a > userland program that manually resets and reconfigures the cards.. This is > an absolute disaster if you happened to be using the hardware, eg: the sound > driver. After running pnpinfo, the hardware essentially "disappears". > > pciconf(8) does it properly, it asks the kernel via /dev/pci. pnpinfo uses > /dev/io to bash on the ports directly. Thats kinda weird seeing as how pnpinfo correctly reports the settings as detected/assigned by the kernel for all other cards. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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