Yony,
Bruce M. Simpson wrote:
And how come the unit number is given an arbitrary value? Is there a
good
reason for that?
...
In your case I'm not sure why your two cards would flip order. Could
it be how your BIOS and hardware set up the PCI IDSEL lines at boot?
If this is the case on your system, then you really need to provide more
data about your hardware, i.e. motherboard, BIOS, vendor information
etc. as others point out.
Based on the data you've provided about the issue to date, my best guess
is that something in the above is different on your system (which is why
I mentioned IDSEL lines -- the mechanism PCI uses to actually assign bus
numbers electrically).
Normally the behaviour of FreeBSD's bus probes is well known -- nexus is
walked for child buses, then these buses are plumbed into NEWBUS, e.g.
cpu0...cpuN on nexus itself, PCI buses, and PCI subordinate buses in
that order.
* You mention you don't encounter the issue with Linux, but you may
already be aware that udev can tie driver instance number(s) to specific
MAC addresses, although this process isn't fully automatic and any given
distro may or may not create the persistent udev rules on a first run --
so this is comparing apples with oranges.
* [PCI-Express is a special case though, and I've had to sit down and do
some work with commercial clients to make sure their appliance was able
to detect devices being in particular slot numbers. Again, though, it's
just as subject to the PCI enumeration order further up on the bus
hierarchy as non-PCI-Express drivers.]
So your issue may not be a simple matter of "this seems wrong, this
doesn't work", though I am sorry to hear it isn't working for you right now.
There are a lot of dynamic factors in the overall picture of the system,
and what seems to work as expected for many users, may not be working
for you, and we really need basic hardware information, when folk see
things like this happening, for any volunteer(s) out there to come up
with the right solution, let alone the true picture of what's actually
going on in your specific case.
thanks
BMS
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