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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!xenlink!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Subject: Re: my bug list In-Reply-To: terry@cs.weber.edu's message of Mon, 15 Mar 93 22: 30:46 GMT Message-ID: <DERAADT.93Mar25200858@newt.fsa.ca> Sender: news@fsa.ca Nntp-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca Organization: little lizard city References: <1993Feb27.235240.7476@coe.montana.edu> <1mpdb0INNo8a@ftp.UU.NET> <DERAADT.93Mar11154207@newt.fsa.ca> <1993Mar15.223046.10278@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 03:08:58 GMT Lines: 40 In article <1993Mar15.223046.10278@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > I think you'll find that the majority of the problem here is the PC bus > architecture being device-indeterminate. THere is no mechanism whereby I > can ask a device "what are you?". This is distictly different from most > of the bus architectures out there today (like VME/BI/QBUS/FutureBus/SBUS/ > etc.). ... more irrelevant stuff deleted.. This is NOT the problem that was being talked about. I'd suggest that you back and read the original articles in question before you post anything more on the topic. The ISA bus should get reset. If it is reset, then the WD8013 probe will work. This has nothing to do with the ROM matching code. My WD8013 card probes on a cold boot. It does not probe on a warm boot. Obviously, that's because the probe routine is not causing an interrupt from the card. That's because the probe routine tries to cause an interrupt, but unfortunately, the card has not been reset, so it ignores the particular probe sequence. It IS possible to probe that card! Linux does it, Xenix does it, *ETC*. If 386BSD does not, THEN IT IS BUSTED. > If you think you can figure out a way to do a real hardware inventory on a > PC, tell us about it -- or make the million yourself. 8-). This has absolutely diddly squat to do with a hardware inventory. VMEbus on a Sun does not have a hardware inventory list either. Somehow it works just fine in sun3 and sun4 machines, eh? <tdr. -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca