From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 31 21:44:37 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 8F96837B71A; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:44:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f315hU305592; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200104010543.f315hU305592@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: current@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is it supposed to be this broken? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 31 Mar 2001 19:43:47 PST." <20010331194347.I9431@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:43:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > 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? Because you can't use their IRQs anyway; the PnP data for devices like that is a statement of fact - IRQ 7 is connected to the super-IO chip and you simply *CANNOT* use it for another device. > Also, is there any system in place so that I can tell a device to > go away? (one that isn't pccard/cardbus) ? Not at this time, no. Why would you want to, short of reloading the driver? -- ... 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