On Tue, 5 Aug 1997 06:54:27 +0200 (MEST) 
 Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de> wrote:

 > In the daemon book I read the probe routine should try to cause an interrupt
 > by the device so the system can figure the interrupt and configure it
 > accordingly. Only if thats not possible, the probe routine should hardwire
 > the interrupt.
 > 
 > I didn't find this in our current code - is it still valid? If yes, could
 > anyone point me to an example where this is done (an i386 driver prefered)?
 > How can my probe routine verify the interrupt happened?

Under NetBSD/i386, interrupts are completely disabled during autoconfig.
This method of probing for a device is not to be used.

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