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Date:      Wed, 19 Jan 2000 07:43:58 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: boot messages for pci devices... 
Message-ID:  <33348.948264238@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:10:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001181809160.49944-100000@beppo.feral.com> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001181809160.49944-100000@beppo.feral.com>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>
>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:28:09AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> > fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> port 0xc400-0xc43f mem 0xefe00000-0xefefffff,0xeffff000-0xefffffff irq 9 at device 14.0 on pci0
>> 
>> Agreed.  For a PCI card all I want to know is what it is, and what IRQ it
>> was assigned.  A single line should be suffient.
>
>Do you even need to know what IRQ it was assigned? It seems to me that IRQ,
>like IO-PORT, is only needed if you're either interested in such stuff or to
>catch conflicts (both are under bootverbose)

The IRQ is useful to me at least, since the ISA/PCI irq distribution is
rather hackish and non-trivial to get right at times.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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