Is there a way to disable PCI devices before a driver attaches to them?

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2018 10:36:43 -0700, Eric Joyner wrote:
> ^ See subject ^
> 
> The only method I know of atm is to load vmm via loader.conf and use the
> pptdev variable to make the devices that I want to disable just "ppt"
> devices.

Maybe you can use /boot/device.hints to disable the device
you don't want a driver to attach to? Example:

	hint.ppt.0.disable="YES"

You should also be able to add such a statement to /boot/loader.conf
because device.hints might get replaced during updates (and it
is a system-provided file, while loader.conf usually is a
user-spplued file),

See "man device.hints", or:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/device-hints.html

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/disable-driver.14402/


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