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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ether probing and 9load
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 22:12:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa0c6b78584083cb00496963f15942c3@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)

On Thu Mar 14 17:39:14 EST 2002, andrey@lanl.gov wrote:
> ...
> the question is: is there an easy way to probe for all ethercards[] or
> should we stick with the 'in-house' solution, which is
> strcpy(ctlr->type, "rtl8139"); in etherinit()
> ...

it's trivial to make 9load/plan9 scan for and find pnp devices such
as pci ethernet cards, we've been doing that internally. it's too fraught
with problems to poke around randomly for isa devices. in fact, we used
to do that and it caused such problems we created plan9.ini to get
round it. of course, that was before there were pnp devices (other than
eisa).


             reply	other threads:[~2002-03-15  3:12 UTC|newest]

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2002-03-15  3:12 jmk [this message]
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2002-03-14 22:40 andrey mirtchovski

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