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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 2000 22:28:26 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0RELEASE and 3COM589EC
Message-ID:  <20000806222826.B22130@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <200008070151.TAA28079@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 07:51:10PM -0600
References:  <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com> <200008070151.TAA28079@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> probably said:
> 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.

I have to say I did prefer the PAO approach of "what irqs can I
definately not use that I think I can" and let it sort out the rest.
Caused me fewer problems.

> The NEWCARD stuff should be better about this, btw.

Thats good to hear.

P.

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pir                  pir@pir.net                    pir@net.tufts.edu



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