From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 20 17:36:19 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 17:36:17 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (dhcp244.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13B1C37B400; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:36:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eBL1kZa01218; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200012210146.eBL1kZa01218@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.1.1 and 4.2 halt when booting, Gigabyte GA-6BXU In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:29:39 MST." <14913.23812.1233.305120@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:46:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > I was > > > wondering if anyone knew of a way to fix this, or if > > > it will be fixed in the base system, or if there is > > > some way to completely disable PNP in 4.2. > > > > There are no known problems with PnP in 4.2, so there's nothing that's > > going to be fixed unless we can characterise your problem here. > > I'm confused. Others have reported numerous bugs and/or misfeatures > with the current code (including it failing on at least one ThinkPad > laptop). There's a great deal of confusion between "ISA PnP", "BIOS PnP", and "Side-effects of BIOS PnP", as well as "reports that something might be failing" and "known problems". The Thinkpad problem appears to be a side-effect of calling the BIOS PnP interface, but hasn't been characterised. The problem above may or may not actually be PnP related at all. There are bugs in the PnP implementation that I've left out of the discussion here because they're not really relevant to the issue. Perhaps it would be fairer to say "if what you're reporting is really a lockup during the ISA PnP probe, then there are no known problems related to that feature and thus no plans to fix it at this time". Right now, however, the problem report does not contain enough detail to guess at what is going wrong, let alone why. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message