Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > I am attempting to install FreeBSD 4.1.1, off floppy, brand new CUBX
> > > motherboard with the 4 IDE channels. It's a GENERIC kernel, so I've done
> > > nothing to it yet.
> >
> > GENERIC:
> > device ata0 at isa? port IO_WD1 irq 14
> > device ata1 at isa? port IO_WD2 irq 15
> >
> > notice the lack of ata2 and ata3.
> >
> > I have no idea what irq to use though.
>
> Kind of begs the question: why is this stuff still statically
> allocated in "config" anyway,
It isn't anymore.
> since it's PnP known to the
> system, and so could be configured dynamically.
Yes, it is dynamic now. These were only ever used as fallback hints for
non-PnP, non-PCI systems.
> The only argument for this, I guess, is to allow you to
> leave the controller and driver out of a kernel entirely?
You can already do this - it would be trivially easy to wrap up the ide
drivers into a kld file and have it loaded prior to boot time.
> It seems to me that the same effect could be had by ensuring
> that said drivers were in their own ELF sections, and that
> that space be reclaimed, should a device not be found.
This is one of the exact goals in -current - to be able to do this. We can
already reclaim preload space, but nobody has connected it up yet.
Cheers,
-Peter
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