Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 13:20:24 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ugo Paternostro <paterno@dsi.UNIFI.IT> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: PnP support for if_ed, and more... Message-ID: <XFMail.980605132024.paterno@dsi.unifi.it> In-Reply-To: <199806040542.WAA00634@antipodes.cdrom.com>
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On 04-Jun-98 Mike Smith wrote about "Re: PnP support for if_ed, and more...": >> > > It's erroneous to use device-specific PnP ID's when the generic >> > > fallback ID is available. >> >> But this is not always the case: e.g. the OPTI931 audio card does not >> seem to have a fallback ID in the PnP description . So in the end, i > > I'm sorry, but I disagree with this entirely. > > If you need the specific ID, by all means use it. Think of it like a > quirk entry - if the generic ID says "this is an NE2000 clone" and you > don't have a specific ID match telling you otherwise then you're stupid > not to go with the generic ID. I second this. I think it would be fine to go with the generic ID. IMHO we don't care much about the kind of Ethernet (or serial) card, we just snoop it and attach it to the system. I understand that [it could be | it is] different for audio cards, and that we [may | do] need a "rogue" list there. So, why not to use them both? I mean, specific ID if you (Luigi) really need them, generic ones otherwise (sio, ed, whatever). >> 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 Why? I think Mike is right: if the device says "I am a NE2000 card" we don't need to know anything else, AFAIK. >> mechanism (perhaps in userconfig) to list vendor_id's known to the >> kernel, and map new id's to know ids. This would be useful, anyway. What about adding a little descriptive text to each entry, to guide the user to map to the right one? > 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 /kernel.config ? >> > Eivind, who added the original if_ed PnP code (port from sio). >> >> Luigi, who added kernel PnP support :) > > Mike, who complains a lot about PnP. 8( Ugo, who did nothing but a little patch :-) P.S.: still offering a bit of manpower to do the work... :-) Well, let's say it all: point me in the right direction, and I will evaluate the possibility :-) WARNING: I know almost nothing about FreeBSD insides =:-/ but I learn fast, and I think that I am a good programmer... ;-) Bye, UP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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