From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Mar 9 10:23:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAEA15016 for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 10:23:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA14962; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:23:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA23936; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 19:22:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: compatibility list In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:01:09 MST." <199903091801.LAA03266@harmony.village.org> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 19:22:51 +0100 Message-ID: <23934.921003771@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message