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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:19:27 -0700 (MST)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot
Message-ID:  <14869.55583.336754.595224@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20001117162836.N62344@bonsai.knology.net> <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <20001116195957.A62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011170209.eAH297q51130@drugs.dv.isc.org> <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org> <200011172237.PAA77876@harmony.village.org> <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com>

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> > : # 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?

They have drivers for all the hardware, so they know which interrupts
are free and which are not.  Also, they get their drivers programmed by
the hardware manufacturers, so they can work-around any weird bugs that
may exist.


Nate


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