From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 24 5: 2:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se (penguin-ext.wise.edt.ericsson.se [194.237.142.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F55337B479 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:02:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms.uab.ericsson.se (ms.uab.ericsson.se [134.138.201.16]) by penguin.wise.edt.ericsson.se (8.11.0/8.10.1/WIREfire-1.3) with ESMTP id e9OC2PZ13209; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:02:25 +0200 (MEST) Received: from uab.ericsson.se (ulinpc62 [134.138.94.22]) by ms.uab.ericsson.se (8.10.0/8.10.0/uab-2.26) with ESMTP id e9OC2On23948; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:02:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <39F57A50.5CA40232@uab.ericsson.se> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 14:02:24 +0200 From: Anders Franzen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loadable drivers References: <39ED9B42.417E88FD@uab.ericsson.se> <200010232309.RAA11156@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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