Re: Floppy disk drive no longer detected

On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:23:40PM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Tim Robbins wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 12:13:26PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> >
> >>My floppy disk drive is no longer probed correctly by -CURRENT. I get the
> >>following message, but none about fd0 (and /dev/fd0 does not exist):
> >>
> >>fdc0: <floppy drive controller (FDE)> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 
> >>on acpi0
> >>
> >>Previously it probed as:
> >>
> >>fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> port 
> >>0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> >>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
> >>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> >>
> >>The ACPI DSDT for this system is available at:
> >>http://people.freebsd.org/~tjr/k8v.txt.bz2
> >
> >
> >Ok, it looks like the FDC device should have a child device for each drive,
> >but my system's DSDT has none. Could we work around this in the driver by
> >not using _FDE/_FDI to probe unless the FDC device has at least 1 child 
> >with
> >an _FDI object, or should we add an entry to the quirks table for this
> >particular BIOS instead?
> 
> Here's another version of the patch.  It should fix _another_ problem I 
> found with Tim's BIOS, namely that it uses a package instead of a buffer 
> for _FDE.

This works nicely, thanks!


Tim