From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 17 16: 2: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from drugs.dv.isc.org (drugs.dv.isc.org [130.155.191.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0272E37B479; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:02:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from nominum.com (localhost.dv.isc.org [127.0.0.1]) by drugs.dv.isc.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAI01hG22641; Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:01:43 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from marka@nominum.com) Message-Id: <200011180001.eAI01hG22641@drugs.dv.isc.org> To: John Baldwin Cc: Blaz Zupan , Steve Price , Panagiotis Astithas , stable@FreeBSD.org From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:38:55 -0800." Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:01:43 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On 17-Nov-00 Blaz Zupan wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > Ok, then it is the same as leaving the "irq" part out alltogether. > >> > >> Not entirely. IRQ 0 is actually the clock. I think it is there to allow > >> you > >> to edit the IRQ during the kernel config to set it to IRQ 10 if you need t > o. > > > > Ok, so could this be the problem? I've been removing the "irq" part on the > > pccard line on all our boxes (and we have about 100 installations) and neve > r > > had a problem with it. I've never tried setting it to "irq 0". > > Removing it should be fine. I think it is more of a hack to allow an irq > setting to be there for the kernel config to pick up on and let the user edit > . > :) Which is all great and good except that it is not mentioned in UPDATING and the release notes lie (irq 0 != poll mode). So something needs to be fixed, whether it be GENERIC, the release notes or UPDATING. Mark > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message