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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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In message: <20060409090757.GW80492@spc.org>
            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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