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Date:      Tue, 02 Jul 1996 19:11:42 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
To:        Atsushi MURAI <amurai@spec.co.jp>
Cc:        nao@sbl.cl.nec.co.jp, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ethernet 3c579(EISA) is functional? 
Message-ID:  <199607030211.TAA27687@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jul 1996 10:15:40 %2B0900." <9607030115.AA00365@tama3.spec.co.jp.spec.co.jp> 

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>"Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote:
>:
>:controller      eisa0
>:device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr
>:           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>:
>:The underlined portion of the line is not even needed if you are
>:going to attach an eisa device.  It should properly retrieve all of
>:that information during the eisa probe.
>
>Oops. I should read more carefully X-)
>
>A configuration parameter of ep0 is just *fake*, right ?

If you specify an EISA address 0x1xxx or above, then the ISA
probe will attempt to attach to it (this was how the old "EISA"
probe worked).  In fact, with a bit of work, the ep driver could 
simply attach all of the cards it finds since it can find them
all non-invasively.  Unfortuantely, FreeBSD's configuration code
is sufficiently bogus as to make this impossible, for the moment.

>
>Atsushi.
>
>
>
>-- 
>Atsushi Murai                                         E-Mail: amurai@spec.co.j
>p
>SPEC                                                  Voice : +81-3-3833-5341
>System Planning and Engineering Corp.

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Justin T. Gibbs
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