From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 17 15:14:43 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 9480137B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 15:14:40 -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 eAHNEdQ07926; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:14:39 -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 QAA78313; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:14:39 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011172314.QAA78313@harmony.village.org> To: mike ryan Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:22:51 EST." <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net> References: <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net> <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> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:14:39 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net> mike ryan writes: : 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? I wasn't aware that polling wasn't working until very recently. I don't have a good idea how many machines this impacts. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message