Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:02:24 +0200 From: Anders Franzen <uabfra@uab.ericsson.se> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loadable drivers Message-ID: <39F57A50.5CA40232@uab.ericsson.se> References: <39ED9B42.417E88FD@uab.ericsson.se> <200010232309.RAA11156@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > In message <39ED9B42.417E88FD@uab.ericsson.se> Anders Franzen writes: > : Hi, I'm playing around with the linux pcmcia/cardbus drivers. > > What does this have to do with FreeBSD? > Not much except that I have successfully!! ported it to FreeBSD!!!!!. /Fra > > > : Since I crash quite often I would like to do it with modules. > : The problem is that if I don't put any driver for the pcicl chip > : the PCI bus driver hands it over to the chip 'device/bus' and I > : wont see it when I attach the module to the PCI bus. > : > : Is there anyway of doing this or must certain drivers (bridges) be > : linked > : in the kernel? > > Sure. The cardbus drivers haven't been tested as loadable modules, > but pccard and pcic work great as far as I can tell. > > Warner My question was: how can I take control over the 82365 from a loadable driver. Since if the driver is not part of the kernel, the pci bus configuration hands the chip over to a 'pseudo driver' chip. And when I load my driver I wont see the 82365 (TI 1225 in this case). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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