From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 17 14: 3:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1886237B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:03:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAHM3jQ07471; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:03:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id PAA77619; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:03:44 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org> To: Steve Price Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot Cc: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:43:44 CST." <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> References: <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <20001116195957.A62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011170209.eAH297q51130@drugs.dv.isc.org> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:03:44 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> Steve Price writes: : Yep, that did it. Since Dell laptops are so commonplace it : would be nice get this fixed in the GENERIC before the release : goes out. I'm sure there is a more appropriate fix, but the : following patch worked for me. This won't be changed. polling works on more systems than a specific IRQ, and the IRQ to use varies so widely that any choice is likely to be wrong. This sucks. I know this sucks. But I know that it sucks less than the other sucking alternatives. Or, to quote George Carlin: "We suck less than ever before." Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message