In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew
 Jacob writes:
>
>
>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 12:28:09AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> > fxp0: <Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B Ethernet> port 0xc400-0xc43f mem 
>0xefe00000-0xefefffff,0xeffff000-0xefffffff irq 9 at device 14.0 on pci0
>> 
>> Agreed.  For a PCI card all I want to know is what it is, and what IRQ it
>> was assigned.  A single line should be suffient.
>
>Do you even need to know what IRQ it was assigned? It seems to me that IRQ,
>like IO-PORT, is only needed if you're either interested in such stuff or to
>catch conflicts (both are under bootverbose)

The IRQ is useful to me at least, since the ISA/PCI irq distribution is
rather hackish and non-trivial to get right at times.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
[EMAIL PROTECTED]               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Reply via email to