Re: Problem (maybe a solution) loading iwi firmware: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image iwi_bss

John Baldwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 31 July 2006 18:07, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > 2) Try adding 'hw.pci6.0.10.INTA.irq=5' to /boot/loader.conf and seeing if 
> > that changes iwi0 to using IRQ 5 and fixes your problem.
> 
> I tried and also with hw.pci6.10.0.INTA.irq=5 (looking at the pciconf
> output, I thought this might be what you meant, or should it be in hex?
> pci6.0a.0?), but this makes no difference and is ignored. And the device
> still gets irq 10.

Sorry, 'hw.pci6.10.INTA.irq=5'.

> I was thinking: Is there a way to completely disable a device such that
> it gets no irq, address or anything else assigned?
> 
> Some of the devices I will never use, or at least not in near future,
> such as the firewire, the memory card reader and USB2, because I have no
> such devices to attach. And ISA, isn't that legacy?
> 
> Maybe this could reduce noise?
> 
> Of course this is not the perfect solution, but it is workable for now.

None of that would buy you anything.  It doesn't cost anything for devices to 
have resources assigned.

-- 
John Baldwin
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