Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello, all! In former times configuring a kernel was a bit more cumbersome, yet more straightforward than is today: device isa device sio0at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 device sio1at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x0 irq 3 to keep the kernel from messing with

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Michael Proto
Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > Hello, all! > > In former times configuring a kernel was a bit more cumbersome, > yet more straightforward than is today: > > deviceisa > devicesio0at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 > devicesio1at isa? port IO_

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Michael Proto wrote: > Would the following in /boot/device.hints achieve what you are after? > > hint.bge.1.disabled="1" > hint.bge.2.disabled="1" > ... You can put these in /boot/loader.conf, thus leaving /boot/device.hints alone; one less file to deal w

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Michael Proto wrote: > > Is there a way to limit the number of probed entities for > > a certain pci device class to, say, 1 in my case? > > I'd like to use bge0 for FreeBSD but the kernel should leave > > everything else that might be a bge interf

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:30:48PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Michael Proto wrote: > > > > Would the following in /boot/device.hints achieve what you are after? > > > > hint.bge.1.disabled="1" > > hint.bge.2.disabled="1" > > That would be the feat

Re: Limiting the number of probed interfaces?

2007-05-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-May-03 15:30:48 +0200, "Patrick M. Hausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello! > >On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 08:49:40AM -0400, Michael Proto wrote: > >> > Is there a way to limit the number of probed entities for >> > a certain pci device class to, say, 1 in my case? >> > I'd like to use bge0 f