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Date:      Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:12:48 -0800
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        daniel_sobral@voga.com.br
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make_device_driver.sh
Message-ID:  <19980108101248.08714@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <83256586.00423625.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>; from daniel_sobral@voga.com.br on Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:04:24AM -0300
References:  <83256586.00423625.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>

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daniel_sobral@voga.com.br scribbled this message on Jan 8:
> 
> > well... not to discourage you from working on examples,
> > but there isn't any way to dynamicly load an isa device
> > driver, but you can do that with pci devices though...
> 
> Why is that?

because the code is missing this functionality...  and requires the
hard coded configuration obtained from ioconf.c (via config(8))...

now you could hard code everything and just access the hardware, but
that would just be ugly... also, there isn't a way to access the
routine to initally config an isa device (but you can reconfig it)..

I'm not sure on the pci side of things but Stefan Esser should know or
have an example for it (actually, one of the drivers is suppose to
support it)...

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