From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 13:05:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA10345 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:05:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from Sysiphos (Sysiphos.MI.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.212.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA10339 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 13:05:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by Sysiphos id AA26983 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org); Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:03:13 +0100 Message-Id: <199601022103.AA26983@Sysiphos> From: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 22:03:12 +0100 In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert "Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI" (Jan 2, 12:59) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(2) 7/9/95) To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 2, 12:59, Terry Lambert wrote: } Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Zappa & PCI } > I'll probably make the "no driver assigned" message go away } > for all kinds of support chips (CPU to PCI bridge, standard } > ISA peripherals, ...), since those can be identified by their } > PCI class code. (This is already done for PCI graphics cards.) } } NetBSD has a very large database for this in their current code. Yes, I knew about that, and used it as a reference at a time ... } It is actually probably too large, IMO. I don't really understand what use there is to have all those names of unsupported devices in the kernel :) } We need ELF or some other mechanism for segment identification to } enable kernel paging. Well, I don't believe in kernel paging at all! We better kept our kernel reasonably small ... Regards, STefan -- Stefan Esser, Zentrum fuer Paralleles Rechnen Tel: +49 221 4706021 Universitaet zu Koeln, Weyertal 80, 50931 Koeln FAX: +49 221 4705160 ============================================================================== http://www.zpr.uni-koeln.de/~se