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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/digi digi.c digi.h digi_isa.c 
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Brian Somers wrote:

> > [Brian Somers didn't write]
> > Instead of jumping through all of these hoops, why can't you do a
> > config_intrhook_establish() to have the delay-sensitive operations done
> > at a more appropriate time?  This will work for both the at-boot and
> > post-boot cases.
>
> While this would be a clean way of doing things, I'd prefer not to
> defer the card initialisation.  Ultimately I'd like to be able to use
> the device as a console.

The low level parts of the console driver can't use interrupts, and the
high level parts are insignificantly different from ordinary tty drivers.

Bruce


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