From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 31 19:43:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CECA337B719; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:43:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f313hlU06347; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:43:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:43:47 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Mike Smith Cc: current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it supposed to be this broken? Message-ID: <20010331194347.I9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010331021512.H9431@fw.wintelcom.net> <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200103311306.f2VD6dX07055@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 05:06:39AM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Mike Smith [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: 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