Subject: Re: Sbus le() addition
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@domino.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/22/1997 11:49:47
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 15:48:44 -0500 (EST) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

I had * wildcard in the kernel, but without it I got ledma unconfigured...

> On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> 
> : OK I've pluged and antares CONServer 1053 into my SS5 
> : and it probes like this:
> : 
> : dma1 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x200000: rev 2
> : esp1 at dma1 slot 0x2 offset 0x400000 pri 5: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
> : scsibus1 at esp1: 8 targets
> : ledma at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x200010 not configured
> : 
> : I've just added ledma1 at sbus blah blah to my config file and I'm
> : compiling it now. In theory it should work. The kernel is compiling, I'll
> : email in about 20 minutes.
> 
> Hm, is this also ledma+le on a sun4c using this card, I wonder, or just le?
> :)
> 
> Doesn't ledma/le support the ``*'' abstraction of wildcard devices?  If so,
> couldn't the 0's be changed to *'s and make this work without problems in
> GENERIC?
> 
> (Additionally, if it _does_ support ``*'', why are any of them defined as
> `0' when that'll be the first one allocated anyway?)
> 
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> 





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