From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 12 3:14:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C22C14D23 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 03:14:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA42976; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:06:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:06:30 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa Cc: Michael Robinson , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCIC again (was: Any success) In-Reply-To: <199904120508.OAA08934@chandra.eatell.msr.prug.or.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, NAKAGAWA Yoshihisa wrote: > > "That's very elegant, Mike. How does the user provide parametric > > configuration information under new-bus, though, to handle hardware > > special cases that cannot be determined automatically?" > > hum... I don't think "new-bus is elegant". I think "newconfig is > elegant". Because, new-bus configuration has not bus > connection information. Automatically configuration only. > > Some case, automatically configuration not working, so statically > configuration is need. Then we agree :-) Probe hints for non-pnp busses (ISA mainly) are needed. That and building the Makefile is all we use config(8) for. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message