Re: ESS sound card support on laptop

"M. Warner Losh" wrote:
> In message: <[email protected]>
>             "David W. Chapman Jr." <[email protected]> writes:
> : pcm0: <ESS Technology Maestro-2E> irq 5 at device 14.0 on pci0
> : pcm0: unable to map register space
> : device_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6
> 
> FreeBSD should, but isn't, assign resources to PCI devices.  In the
> past, the BIOS has done this, but MS has migrated this functionality
> into the OS.  That's why you see a lot of these sorts of failures with
> various kludges in the FreeBSD tree.  That's part of what I was
> talking about in the developers conference when I said we needed to
> make PCI work again :-)

So if you have a machine without any MS software installed, and
have thereby denied the opportunity for "MS" to migrate "this
functionality into the OS", how does it get migrated?

-- TErry

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