Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 18:48:25 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: bms@spc.org Cc: mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers.102a7e@mired.org, scottl@samsco.org, ceri@submonkey.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using any network interface whatsoever Message-ID: <20060409.184825.99254285.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20060409090757.GW80492@spc.org> References: <44383346.2030207@samsco.org> <17464.16087.217524.843667@bhuda.mired.org> <20060409090757.GW80492@spc.org>
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Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> writes:
: What it really comes down to is that one needs a PCI variant which supports
: what's known as 'geographical addressing', and for FreeBSD's device / ifnet
: framework to support naming cards according to the geographic i.e. physical
: address.
I though thtis was already supported. We export bus/slot/function
information devd, which can be used to configure the device.
: Unfortunately the only systems which tend to implement this feature at
: the moment are CompactPCI based chassis systems. Although there is support
: for geographical addressing in a recent ACPI spec but as far as I know
: it may only really have made its way into blade systems.
How is this different than bus/slot/function?
Warner
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