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Date:      Sun, 6 Aug 2000 18:23:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0RELEASE and 3COM589EC
Message-ID:  <200008070123.SAA04980@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008062053.OAA26582@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Aug 6, 2000 02:53:45 pm"

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Warner Losh writes:
> : - on first insertion: No IRQ!!
> : - on others insertion: No I/O space!!
> 
> NO IRQ means that you've failed to pick a IRQ line that is free.  Pick 
> another one and don't list that one in the irq line.  The NO I/O space 
> means that either ep has a bug when it allocates I/O space and doesn't 
> attach, or that pccardd is trying to allocate things such that it is
> stomping on the I/O space that's already in use.

Just curious..

How far are we from having the IRQ selection process be totally
automatic, i.e. no user input or intervention required? Doesn't
the kernel know what IRQ's are in use or free? Or is there some
BIOS related complication?

-Archie

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