Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 09:10:44 -0600 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Jim Carroll <jim@carroll.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISA-PnP w\o BIOS support? Message-ID: <199805071510.JAA09454@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD.3.91.980507105420.14576B-100000@apollo.carroll.com> References: <199805070421.WAA16545@harmony.village.org> <Pine.BSD.3.91.980507105420.14576B-100000@apollo.carroll.com>
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> > One of the hardest things to do right now with the pccard code in > > FreeBSD -current is to figure out what interrupts you have available. > > Amen to that. > > I had an idea for quick little utility to help solve this. If you could > walk the hardware interrupt vector list, you could display which interrupts > had valid drivers waiting to handle them. This would at least display which > interrupts were in use. You could then decide where to put the pccard > driver (or any other card that needs a free IRQ). The code does that now to a point, except that unfortunately an interrupt may be 'free' as far as the FreeBSD kernel is concerned (no drivers allocated), but there may be a piece of (unconfigured/unknown) hardware that is holding onto an interrupt so it's not really free. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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