From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 25 22:23:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0479637B406 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6Q5NGF63429; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:23:16 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f6Q5NFw00748; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:23:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200107260523.f6Q5NFw00748@harmony.village.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" Subject: Re: New Option ROM device in stable Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:49:51 PDT." <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net> References: <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 23:23:15 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200107122149.f6CLnpA25543@ptavv.es.net> "Kevin Oberman" writes: : I notice that a new device, "Option ROM", has appeared in stable as of : a few days ago. No man page, but the driver makes me think it's to : solve the problem of properly assigning memory space for device iomem. : : Is this what it's all about? You are exactly right. It just gobbles up the option ROMs with the right signature so that other devices (like pcic/pccard) don't try to use them. It does need a man page, though, doesn't it? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message