From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 5 17:43: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (unknown [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78BFD37B479 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:43:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA61h3n60291; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:43:03 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id SAA05914; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 18:43:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011060143.SAA05914@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Wemm Subject: Re: WARNING: later VAIOs (eg: PCG-F690) with ATI chipsets == trouble Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 09:29:26 +0800." <200011060129.eA61TQK75981@mobile.wemm.org> References: <200011060129.eA61TQK75981@mobile.wemm.org> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 18:43:03 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200011060129.eA61TQK75981@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes: : 1: the default pccard (oldcard) address is 0xd0000 and overlaps with the : rom, which causes pccardd to see garbage instead of the CIS> This is easy to change. : 3: NEWCARD doesn't seem to have any way to change the CIS window address. : It merrily maps into 0xd0000 and then explodes in the kernel probe due to : the "garbage" CIS there. It should. However, right now there's lots of things that NEWCARD does that are kinda bogus... Shouldn't we be doing the PnP BIOS recognition algorithms on the ROM area and not allowing any one to allocate the ROM area? How possible is that? IIRC from my reading of this stuff it should be really simple to add. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message