Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 22:09:49 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Walnut Creek, Where Are You? Message-ID: <199902180609.WAA03463@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:06:37 MST." <4.1.19990217225925.0401f9d0@mail.lariat.org>
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> At 03:24 PM 2/17/99 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > >> Could this be due to probing, I wonder? IBM machines tend to have > >> weird hardware that responds badly to probes. It could be that > >> other drivers (which could be deactivated) are mucking up the > >> hardware. This used to happen with OS/2. > > > >No. You wire the pins from the 82558 to the PCI bus, and that's it. > > It's true that with most highly-integrated peripheral controllers > (including the 82558), it's hard to deviate much from the reference > design. But what else is at the port addresses scanned by the various > drivers (not just the fxp driver, but others)? It's possible that > some arcane bit of motherboard hardware is being messed up -- perhaps > by a driver that isn't even finding the peripheral it's looking for. > IBM machines are like that. Brett, I take back everything I said about offering you hardware to write drivers with. If you're that far behind the ball with the way that PCI works, it wouldn't be even vaguely economical. Just accept that courtesy of the marvels of modern PnP architectures, what you are fretting about is effectively impossible. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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