Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:24:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related) Message-ID: <200105212024.f4LKOn901633@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 13:12:21 PDT." <200105212012.f4LKCL901459@mass.dis.org>
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> The bottom line is this; in your driver, ask for the resources that you
> need. If you don't get them, you fail. The PCI bus infrastructure is
> being worked on to improve your chances of getting these resources; it's
> not something that a driver writer should be worrying about per se.
And I should probably have added; the assumptions you can make about the
state of your device are very few. There is a *very* good chance that
your device will *just* have been powered up, and had the BARs set to
something sane. That's it. You should not make any assumptions about
setup done by the BIOS, firmware, etc.
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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]
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