From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 17 16:25: 6 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 CF9AA37B4CF for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:25:01 -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 eAI0P0Q08346 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:25:01 -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 RAA78978 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:25:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011180025.RAA78978@harmony.village.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:18:02 PST." <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001117162836.N62344@bonsai.knology.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> <20001117162836.N62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011172237.PAA77876@harmony.village.org> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:25:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes: : On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:37:28PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : > : # This won't be changed. polling works on more systems than a specific : > : While it saddens me that this laptop won't boot a GENERIC 4.2 : > : without me having to tweak the IRQ (most people won't know to : > : and even if they did wouldn't know how) I certainly understand : > : that sometimes progress comes at a price. : > : > Yes. However, these same people are current hozed when we use IRQ 10 : > because that fails on compaqs and I think Dells (some dells, not all) : > because IRQ 10 is used for something on the pci bus. Other IRQs have : > similar problems. :-( : : How does win98 manage to handle all this? It uses PNP. Also, it implements a real cardbus bridge code to deal with things. We don't have either option in 4.x. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message