From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 6 18:51:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B17437BCCC for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:51:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA84615; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:51:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id TAA28079; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 19:51:10 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008070151.TAA28079@harmony.village.org> To: Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: 4.0RELEASE and 3COM589EC Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Aug 2000 18:23:15 PDT." <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com> References: <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 19:51:10 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com> Archie Cobbs writes: : Just curious.. : : How far are we from having the IRQ selection process be totally : automatic, i.e. no user input or intervention required? Doesn't : the kernel know what IRQ's are in use or free? Or is there some : BIOS related complication? Generally speaking, you can't. There are too many whacked out configurations in the wild to be able to do it always. However, it wouldn't be too hard to do this. It is waiting for an ioctl to be written for the card device that asks "Can I use this?" so pccardd can be hacked to cope. The NEWCARD stuff should be better about this, btw. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message