Re: HP9000 K-Series support, howto and diffs

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Jochen Kunz:
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> It seams that OpenBSD solved the double detection problem on
> PDC_TYPE_MEMMAP machines with the introduction of locators for device
> attachments and nailing down the devices in the kernel config file. I
> was able to avoid this with my code. In fact, the way the current
> OpenBSD code handles the device path with PDC_TYPE_MEMMAP is plain
> false. (To my limited knowledge.)

no it is not.
they do not show up twice nowhere.
locators are there to distinguish devices on diffrent models
to be ordered properly. such as com ports for example.
if there would be double detected devices they would show
up in dmesg as unconfigured according to your theory.

> But the K220 uses PDC_TYPE_SYSMAP and also sufferes from the double
> detection problem. I see you implemented an algorithem similar to the
> one from the PDC manual. I simply steped through all module indexes...
> (See my code.)

double detection in that diff is due to bugs in the code obviously.

cu

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