Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:42:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: me@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new config Message-ID: <199806102142.OAA13468@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 17:35:53 -0000." <199806101735.KAA29235@usr01.primenet.com>
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>1) There was a driver setup disk. It knew how to identify the > card and determine the interrupt. The FreeBSD driver could > have done this as well, but it simply didn't have the code > for it. This would not have been a destructive probe; the > chip had already been located. In most cases, the software interface specification for how to do this is unavailable. I do actually have some info for WD/SMC cards, which is why I added support for "?" for the interrupt, in which case the kernel reads it from the EEPROM. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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