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Date:      Mon, 7 Aug 2000 04:35:19 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0RELEASE and 3COM589EC
Message-ID:  <20000807043519.R24886@hand.dotat.at>
In-Reply-To: <200008070330.VAA28709@harmony.village.org>
References:  <20000806222826.B22130@pir.net> <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com> <200008070151.TAA28079@harmony.village.org> <20000806222826.B22130@pir.net> <200008070330.VAA28709@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:
>
>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.

IME on 4.1 although the kernel will correctly detect all the IRQs used
by the system (so long as I use "options PNPBIOS"), pccardd will
insist on using the IRQs in the pccardd.conf, and if the kernel says
"no" it won't re-try with another IRQ, resulting in problems like
"driver allocation failed".

Tony.
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