Re: ESS sound card support on laptop

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            Terry Lambert <[email protected]> writes:
: "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?

We write it.  It isn't in the BIOS anymore.  Usually with ACPI.

Warner

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