Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:47:43 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: patseal@hyperhost.net (Patrick Seal), dave@jetcafe.org (Dave Hayes), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ASUS CUBX Motherboard 3rd and 4th IDE channels Message-ID: <200010170347.e9H3lhG58203@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200010170057.RAA04303@usr05.primenet.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 4.1.1, off floppy, brand new CUBX > > > motherboard with the 4 IDE channels. It's a GENERIC kernel, so I've done > > > nothing to it yet. > > > > GENERIC: > > device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14 > > device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15 > > > > notice the lack of ata2 and ata3. > > > > I have no idea what irq to use though. > > Kind of begs the question: why is this stuff still statically > allocated in "config" anyway, It isn't anymore. > since it's PnP known to the > system, and so could be configured dynamically. Yes, it is dynamic now. These were only ever used as fallback hints for non-PnP, non-PCI systems. > The only argument for this, I guess, is to allow you to > leave the controller and driver out of a kernel entirely? You can already do this - it would be trivially easy to wrap up the ide drivers into a kld file and have it loaded prior to boot time. > It seems to me that the same effect could be had by ensuring > that said drivers were in their own ELF sections, and that > that space be reclaimed, should a device not be found. This is one of the exact goals in -current - to be able to do this. We can already reclaim preload space, but nobody has connected it up yet. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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