From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 1 19:38:57 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA21609 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 18:39:55 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA21603 ; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 18:39:52 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA06178; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 18:39:44 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199506020139.SAA06178@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: It's new floppy time, folks! To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 18:39:44 -0700 (PDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199506020023.RAA15909@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 1, 95 05:23:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1037 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Yes, I've fixed another mess-o-bugs! Thanks again to all for your > feedback. Response has been simply tremendous, and I get the ... > o ix0 (Intel etherexpress) probed too soon, confusing other devs. Not the ix0 driver, it was ie0 vs ep0 that the order changed on, I still don't know if there is a problem with some one possible smashing the ix0 driver by hitting port 0x100 as the Intel docs don't say anything about a port there. Also the ix0 probe is a readonly probe until it finds what is called the BART chip signature value which involves a complicated read sequence from 1 port. Not very likely to screw up another board doing 4 inb's to board I/O address + 0xF. > I've also added a number of "seat belts" to the installation, making > it much more difficult to hurt yourself. Please let me know how it > goes! But I don't like seat belts :-) :-) :-) -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD