Date: Mon, 08 Jan 1996 01:42:20 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: james@else.net (James FitzGibbon), current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disposition of unknown PCI ethernet solved Message-ID: <199601080942.BAA01488@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 08 Jan 96 19:30:51 %2B1030." <199601080900.TAA01821@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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>James FitzGibbon stands accused of saying: > >> 2. The visual kernel configuration program caused be half the problems >> with this card because it limits iobase entries for the ed0? device to no >> more than 0x2000. Using the command-line config program, it can be set >> higher. > >The visual config editor was not designed with PCI devices in mind, as >they were supposed to be automatically probed. 0x2000 is (AFAIK) the >highest legitimate address to which one would want to set an ISA or >ISA-like device to. > >If the PCI code (Stefan?) can't bend the ed driver around to talk to this >card, then obviously visuserconfig() should be updated 8) The 'ed' driver is an ISA device, not PCI. There is nothing special about 0x2000 - ISA devices can use port addresses anywhere in the 16bit 0x0-0xffff range. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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