Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 23:35:16 -0500 (EST) From: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: is it supposed to be this broken? Message-ID: <20010331233328.D66986-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> In-Reply-To: <20010331194347.I9431@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >* 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] I thought you had to disable hardware in the bios to make it actually go away, otherwise an interrupt is still "there" even if FreeBSD isn't putting the usual device driver on it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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