In a message dated 9/9/01 5:21:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The entire PCI probe/attach process is going to have to change, however I
> don't see it changing all that much. It is hard to detect devices that
> are "onboard" as opposed to being in physical slots, and there is no
> consistent mechanism that one can take to always get them "first".
>
> In short, what you're asking for is difficult to achieve consistently,
> and not really worth the effort. Your onboard ethernet is fxp1. Deal
> with it.
>
"Worth it" depends on what you care about, I suppose. But a commercial
vendor, using freebsd as a platform, will "care" if one motherboard scans one
way and another scans differently, as you cant tell customers "well, if you
have this product the ports are this way, and if you have that product the
ports are another way". While there may not be a generic way to always do it
the way one expects, it doesnt seem unreasonable to have a mechanism to
override the default probe that isnt a nightmare to implement.
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