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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:22:51 -0500
From:      mike ryan <msr@elision.org>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot
Message-ID:  <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net>
In-Reply-To: <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:03:44PM -0700
References:  <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <20001116195957.A62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011170209.eAH297q51130@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org>

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On 11/17/00, Warner Losh wrote:
> 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.

are the reasons why polling doesn't work on some hardware well
understood?


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