From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 25 17:37:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 976FC37B509 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:37:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (msmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3Q0JMb18706; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200104260019.f3Q0JMb18706@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: Dima Dorfman , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot messages In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2001 21:31:59 EDT." <200104250131.VAA01900@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:19:21 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > < said: > > > This is not a bug. This is an FAQ. So much that it's actually > > documented in (*gasp!*) the FAQ: > > Unfortunately, the A in the FAQ is wrong. > > The ``can't assign resources'' messages indicate that the devices are > legacy ISA devices for which a non-PnP-aware driver is compiled into > the kernel. Actually, this isn't true; these drivers are for the most part PnP-aware, the problem is that the hints are processed before the PnP data, so when hints for these drivers are present, the devices instantiated by the PnP data can't get at their resources (because they're already taken). > These include devices such as keyboard controllers, the > programmable interrupt controller chip, and several other bits of > standard infrastructure. The resources can't be assigned because > there is already a driver using those addresses. The only devices which can't correctly be handled using PnP data right now are console devices, due to our need to have console support before the device subsystem is initialised. (Keyboard, mouse, video). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message