Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:28:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: eivind@yes.no, mike@smith.net.au, paterno@dsi.UNIFI.IT, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP support for if_ed, and more... Message-ID: <199806040628.IAA08888@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199806040542.WAA00634@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jun 3, 98 10:42:19 pm
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> > But i don't think it is worth the effort to implement a full scan of > > the PnP info. What I think we would really need is a simple > > mechanism (perhaps in userconfig) to list vendor_id's known to the > > kernel, and map new id's to know ids. ... > > Wouldn't be too hard to add (just set up a list of id's, to fill up with > > DATA_SET in the kenrel, and modify userconfig to add the above > > commands), and it is sufficiently flexible to add new 'compatible' > > devices. > > Linking this into the kernel would be bad; it ought to be read from a > file. I think I am close to having BIOS disk access working at least uh ? we have been using "dset" for a long time to store this kind of information into the kernel. Just allocate a mapping table in the kernel (a map entry is 8 bytes after all, so we don't even have to worry about kernel bloat). cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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