From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 16 7:24:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cosrel2.hp.com (cosrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263EE37B66D; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 07:24:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from udlkern.fc.hp.com (udlkern.fc.hp.com [15.1.52.48]) by cosrel2.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C5C6F0; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:24:07 -0600 (MDT) Received: from udlkern.fc.hp.com (erdos.fc.hp.com [15.1.54.169]) by udlkern.fc.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.7.3 SMKit7.0) id IAA26556; Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:24:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <39EB0F99.8FBC5362@udlkern.fc.hp.com> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 08:24:26 -0600 From: "Andrew M. Miklic" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.11.00 9000/785) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: syscons Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I have a question about syscons, and I was wondering if there were anyone out there who knew enough about the initialization sequence of syscons to answer... Basically, I'm trying to write a TGA driver around syscons, but TGA is a PCI card, and it seems, after having looked through the syscons code and the VGA driver, that syscons is better suited to ISA-style adapters, i.e., it absoultely has to call (tga/vga)_configure() very early in boot (i.e., before main()) to register adapters, and this registration requires a probe of adapters _before_ PCI services are available to do a probe of PCI adapters--is this true? If so, does anyone know of a nifty way around this conundrum? Andrew Miklic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message