From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Lyndon Nerenberg To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:44:57 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: dc6ac83a-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 02:41 PM, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > The best best is to hack the ether driver to assume a device is there > if given a port, irq, etc. in the plan9.ini instead of looking for the > devices in the PCI space, i.e. make the driver look like an ISA device > driver. Yes, I was going to try that first. Failing that I'll teach the kernel to use the BIOS to probe (configurable from plan9.ini so the existing code can stay intact for non-BIOSed hardware). --lyndon