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Date:      Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:22:51 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: compatibility list 
Message-ID:  <23934.921003771@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:01:09 MST." <199903091801.LAA03266@harmony.village.org> 

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In message <199903091801.LAA03266@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <22837.920977696@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>: One "minor detail" is that all drivers should be probe/attached
>: AFTER the kernel is in "normal state", ie, with timeouts and
>: interrupts working and all that.  (Alert people will have noticed
>: that Sorens new ata driver does this :-)
>
>As does CAM :-)

No, CAM spends a lot of time before that point detecting hardware,
but it doesn't probe the busses until after that point.  Sorens 
driver goes a little further than that.

>There are many areas where dynamic interrupts are hard to do due to
>the various masks that we have in the kernel.  Some devices like to be
>in multiple masks.

Another bridge to build, cross and burn...

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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