On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dennis wrote:
> At 09:54 AM 5/27/00 +0200, John Hay wrote:
> >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dennis writes:
> >> : My 4.0 system doesnt probe ISA devices on my system.
> >> :
> >> : Whats the trick? Is there a config requirement with old-style drivers?
> >>
> >> They probe great for me. what, specifically, isn't probing?
> >
> >He is probably talking about their own driver. In that case you have to
> >add it to /sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.* or bite the bullet and new-busify
> >it.
>
> Yes....Whose brainstorm was it to use the new convoluted bus nonsense in
> FreeBSD 4.0? Clearly someone who never wrote a driver with a complex
> controller with indexed memory mapped registers.Whats next, assembler drivers?
Mine.
>
> isa_compat.h? LOL...what college freshman thought of that? Is it really
> that difficult to have the prefix_probe() function called based on the
> config file?
This is just a list of drivers using the legacy apis. Since no new drivers
will be using those apis, this file will gradualy disappear and certainly
no new drivers will be added to it.
>
> Its seems rather humorous that the "generic" bus implementation requires
> that isa drivers be hacked into the kernel with a build-time include. Very
> humorous indeed. Is this a temporary condition as was the deboggle in v3.0?
Whatever.
>
> any docs on this junk?
RTFM.
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