From owner-freebsd-current  Wed Mar  6 11:48:01 1996
Return-Path: owner-current
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA17627
          for current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:48:01 -0800 (PST)
Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA17596
          Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:47:58 -0800 (PST)
Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA11641; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:43:21 -0700
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Message-Id: <199603061943.MAA11641@phaeton.artisoft.com>
Subject: Re: 2842 and the disappearing file-system :-(
To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs)
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 12:43:21 -0700 (MST)
Cc: terry@lambert.org, imb@scgt.oz.au, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199603061800.KAA09029@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Mar 6, 96 10:00:31 am
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk

> >I think EISA probing ought to be limited to EISA bus machines.  Call
> >me strange.  8-).
> 
> I think that using anything other than eisaconf for devices that
> look and behave like EISA devices is a waste of code and a cludge.
> Forcing the 2842 to use our ISA registration routines is certainly
> not a better alternative.

What about adding a VLB registration phase?

There needs to be a disctinction between need for bounce buffers
anyway... You call the VLB probe if the EISA tag isn't present.

This unkludges a lot of things, including the things that are
kludged by the EISA ID check on non-EISA boxes.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.