From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual PC 6 PCI device probe failure
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:35:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4c8a819f4b9ad79c0117eb1d9196b0d@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306251414420.21907-100000@fbsd.cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
On Wed Jun 25 16:21:29 EDT 2003, mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca wrote:
> Ron has the greatest desire to fix this, but keeps getting distracted..
> Maybe someday...
>
> I don't know enough low-level hardware details to do it myself (they don't
> teach these things in school anymore).
>
> It comes down to configuring IRQs on peripheral devices using the BIOS (or
> whatever's there) instead of trusting what the device thinks it has for an
> IRQ.
>
> andrey
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, David Presotto wrote:
>
> > more to do with lack of neurons/time on our part.
> >
None of this really hits the target. The Plan9 code doesn't use the BIOS calls
because it is sometimes used on hardware which doesn't have a BIOS, it just does
the work itself.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-25 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-25 3:47 Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 15:06 ` jmk
2003-06-25 19:09 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 19:55 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:10 ` David Presotto
2003-06-25 20:20 ` andrey mirtchovski
2003-06-25 20:35 ` jmk [this message]
2003-06-25 20:32 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:32 ` ron minnich
2003-06-25 20:39 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:42 ` Christopher Nielsen
2003-06-25 20:49 ` boyd, rounin
2003-06-25 21:04 ` ron minnich
2003-06-26 0:08 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2003-06-25 20:41 jmk
2003-06-25 20:44 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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