Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:14:34 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Probing deflugalty Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970417191432.00b5d890@etinc.com>
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At 09:00 AM 4/18/97 +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > >On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, dennis wrote: > >> At 08:48 AM 4/18/97 +1000, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: >> > >> >Dennis, I have a machine with ed0 (ISA), ed3 (PCI), ed4 (PCI) >> > >> >Putting the 'device dev0' in makes sure the code is included, but >> >numbering starts after the ISA numbers. >> > >> >> Uh....PCIs are probed first, so how would the above work...it makes >> much more sense for the PCI boards to be first (ie ed0, ed1) and >> the isa cards last, since you can specify the isa cards device name, >> but the PCI device name is dependent on whats in the system. > >Like I said, numbering starts *after* the ISA numbers. I tried a kernel >config with > >ed0 >ed1 >ed2 at isa .... > >What happened was the PCI cards started at ed3 and ed4. So just added > >ed0 at isa >ed1 at isa >ed2 at isa >ed3 > >and now I have the flexibility of putting in more ISA cards if necessary, >and the PCI cards start at 3. ISA cards won't automatically number >themselves, so it makes sense to start the number for PCI *after* all of >the defined ISA devices. I have not looked at the code, but I assume >that the PCI attach code finds the end of the ISA devices somehow. > >Cheers, > >Danny > What version are you running? I dont think 2.2.1 works that way..... Dennis
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