Subject: Re: isapnp & ES1869
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/02/2002 02:41:19
In article <200210020122.VAA18191@grex.cyberspace.org>,
Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org> wrote:
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>Hello,                                               
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>Does isapnp tell boards what IRQs, DRQs etc. to use, or does
>it ask boards what they're already using? I'm having trouble 
>making an ESS ES1869 based board work under NetBSD.
>
>Another operating system says that the board uses IRQ 10,   
>DRQs 1 & 3.  Should the board use the same values under
>NetBSD?

It tries to use what the driver says is bestconfig, avoiding conflicts
with other cards. Unfortunately right now there is no way to tell it
to use something else.

christos