Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:59:04 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 - Isa devices not being probed (fwd) Message-ID: <200005291658.MAA23819@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20000527155731.V86725@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271551120.39048-100000@sasami.jurai.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005271551120.39048-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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At 03:57 PM 5/27/00 -0400, Bill Fumerola wrote: >On Sat, May 27, 2000 at 03:51:24PM -0400, dennis@etinc.com wrote: > >> Yes....Whose brainstorm was it to use the new convoluted bus nonsense in >> FreeBSD 4.0? Clearly someone who never wrote a driver with a complex >> controller with indexed memory mapped registers.Whats next, assembler drivers? >[...] >> isa_compat.h? LOL...what college freshman thought of that? Is it really >> that difficult to have the prefix_probe() function called based on the >> config file? >[...] >> Its seems rather humorous that the "generic" bus implementation requires >> that isa drivers be hacked into the kernel with a build-time include. Very >> humorous indeed. Is this a temporary condition as was the deboggle in v3.0? > >It's these kinds of close-minded, stupid-ass comments that make me giggle >with delight as I buy from lanmedia instead of etinc for T1 cards. Luckily for them, their "strategy" of using an ethernet controller instead of an HDLC contoller frees them from having to write much code. Unfortunately they are stuck with inefficient and low density hardware. some people need more density than your obviously trivial needs, and the "new" bus-oriented implementation makes writing drivers with complex controllers much more difficult than need-be. DB Emerging Technologies, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- http://www.etinc.com ISA and PCI T1/T3/V35/HSSI Cards for FreeBSD and LINUX Multiport T1 and HSSI/T3 UNIX-based Routers Bandwidth Management Standalone Systems Bandwidth Management software for LINUX and FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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