From owner-cvs-all Thu Sep 5 22:57: 0 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8CEC37B400; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D691943E6A; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 22:56:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g865urGq012391; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 23:56:54 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 23:56:51 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020905.235651.39463619.imp@bsdimp.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: <200209051707.g85H780f056337@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Sep-2002 John Baldwin wrote: >Speaking of the interrupt routing table, there is a BIOS call you can >make to retrieve the darn thing and we should probably do that first >and only search memory to find one if the BIOS call fails. Comments? I found that the BIOS call was completely unreliable on too many machines to be a viable alternative. It was added late in the game, and many folks don't implement it quite right. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message