From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Aug 6 20:31:20 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 58E2937BC4D for ; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 20:31:14 -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 VAA84925; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:31:12 -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 VAA28709; Sun, 6 Aug 2000 21:30:57 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008070330.VAA28709@harmony.village.org> To: Peter Radcliffe Subject: Re: 4.0RELEASE and 3COM589EC Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 06 Aug 2000 22:28:26 EDT." <20000806222826.B22130@pir.net> References: <20000806222826.B22130@pir.net> <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com> <200008070151.TAA28079@harmony.village.org> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2000 21:30:57 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <20000806222826.B22130@pir.net> Peter Radcliffe writes: : Warner Losh 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. We've generalized that into pccardd asking "Can I use this resource" of the kernel and the kernel saying "yes" or "no". One still needs to be able to control which irqs are used, and /etc/pccard.conf is the place for that if your machine needs special TLC for irqs or io addresses. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message