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To: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman),
	wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul), current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: General ata grousing 
In-Reply-To: Message from Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> 
   of "Wed, 22 Dec 1999 22:37:27 +0100." <199912222137.WAA80908@freebsd.dk> 
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From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
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Soren Schmidt wrote:
> It seems Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > <<On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 21:59:30 +0100 (CET), Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> 
    said:
> > 
> > > If you looked at the code, you would see that the ata driver only uses
> > > this ugly method when we are dealing with the standard primary & 
> > > secondary controller which are bound to specific addresses and interrupts
    .
> > > Those are not configurable.
> > 
> > That's why the resource manager allows you to specify a specific range
> > of resources.  If you want to be sure of getting IRQ 11, specify start
> > == end == 11 and length == 1.
> 
> Right, but I think there where problems with that back when dfr did this
> code. At any rate this is currently being rewritten (again by dfr) to
> handle this better and to make ata register devices as children etc etc.

Just as a BTW, dfr and sos are exchanging patches right now (and have been
for quite a few days) that happen to fix the inthand_add() stuff.

Cheers,
-Peter



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