Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:43:47 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it supposed to be this broken? Message-ID: <20010331194347.I9431@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:06:39AM -0800 References: <20010331021512.H9431@fw.wintelcom.net> <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org>
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* Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> [010331 12:41] wrote: > > This is cute... > > > > If you disable a device using /boot/device.hints like so: > > hint.ppc.0.disabled="1" > > hint.ppc.1.disabled="1" > > hint.ppbus.0.disabled="1" > > hint.ppbus.1.disabled="1" > > > > you get this: > > ppc1: <ECP parallel printer port> at port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on > > isa0 > > That's because the PnP entity is still matched. You can't disable PnP > devices; it just doesn't work that way. 8) You mean it's impossible to disable lpt/floppy in a pnp system and use thier IRQs for anything else unless you remove the drivers from the kernel? Why? Also, is there any system in place so that I can tell a device to go away? (one that isn't pccard/cardbus) ? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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