NEW_PCIB and arm take 3 (4?)

[John-Mark Gurney]

John-Mark Gurney wrote this message on Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 14:30 -0700:
> John Baldwin wrote this message on Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 17:19 -0400:
> > The plan for NEW_PCIB was for it to be a temporary option that would 
> > eventually become the default on all platforms.  I have long had patches to 
> > provide the one step of infrastructure (namely implementing "real" 
> > bus_activate_resource methods) for various arm chipsets, but I haven't been 
> > able to get anyone to review or test them.  I'm about at the point of just 
> > committing them in a week barring any specific reports from testers or 
> > reviewers.
> > 
> > You can read more about what NEW_PCIB is at:
> > 
> >    https://wiki.freebsd.org/NEW_PCIB
> > 
> > These patches aim to implement step 2 from that wiki page.  However, I have no 
> > way to test them (and to be honest, I haven't recently tested to see if they 
> > will compile.  I will ensure make universe passes before pushing them in if it 
> > comes down to that.)
> > 
> >    http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/arm_activate2.patch
> > 
> > As I noted previously, I don't know how to properly fix i80321_pci in large 
> > part because I do not understand what it is doing.  Warner had previously 
> > suggested just dropping it and if the consensus is to do that, I'd be much 
> > obliged for someone to make it so.
> 
> As before, I can test on AVILA (ixp425)...  What's the best way to
> test the patch?  Just apply, build, boot and verify that things come
> up sanely?
> 
> If so, I'll have results for you soon..

Ok, tested, and my AVILA board comes up fine and see the ath board
I have on it...

$ pciconf -lv
ath0 at pci0:0:2:0:	class=0x028000 card=0x2091168c chip=0x0029168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
    device     = 'AR922X Wireless Network Adapter'
    class      = network

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