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Date:      Thu, 04 Apr 1996 09:12:18 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        koshy@india.hp.com (A JOSEPH KOSHY)
Cc:        install@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: if_ed(2)
Message-ID:  <199604040712.JAA16288@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604040417.AA005441467@fakir.india.hp.com>

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> Why does the GENERIC kernel contain ed0 and ed1 built in?

It has a lot of other network cards it is probing during the
autoconfigure phase. ed0 and ed1 are for WD cards having different
default i/o addresses.

> 
> Not many people use two network cards (those who do can always build
> another kernel).  With the addition of the boot time configuration

Purpose is not running two cards simultaneously. That would requires
configuring the cards at different IRQs anyway.


> wouldn't just one ed driver suffice for most people?
> 
> Koshy
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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