NEW_PCIB and arm take 3 (4?)

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:51:14 PM John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> 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

Perfect, thanks!

-- 
John Baldwin