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Date:      Mon, 3 Nov 1997 09:28:33 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems after PAO -> 2.2.5 stable 
Message-ID:  <199711031628.JAA07134@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711030534.QAA01689@word.smith.net.au>
References:  <199711030520.WAA05479@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199711030534.QAA01689@word.smith.net.au>

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> > > Which component "doesn't work"?  The card has no idea which IRQ it's 
> > > triggering, and AFAIK the pcic doesn't interpret the CIS, nor does the
> > > kernel, so I can't see anything other than pccardd that's at fault 
> > > here...
> > 
> > Don't know.  If I try to use the first free irq for my ethernet card it
> > doesn't work (I can't remember which one it is, but it is free).
> > However, if it's one of the 'accepted' IRQ's, it does work.  I have no
> > good explanation of why this is the way it is, other than what I stated
> > already.
> 
> Well, it sounds like my logic above is screwed.  Let's be Sherlock:
> 
>  - pccardd doesn't do it (I checked)

As did I.

>  - the kernel doesn't do it (I checked)

It never did.

>  - the card _can't_ do it (it has no idea what IRQ is actually being
>    generated)

Is that true?  How do you know that it doesn't know which IRQ is being
used via the driver?

> So once the impossible has been eliminated, I can only conclude that 
> the pcic *does* interpret the CIS.

But it doesn't, I checked. :)


Nate



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