Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 20:09:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot messages Message-ID: <200104260309.f3Q39VL20710@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2001 23:01:23 EDT." <200104260301.XAA15921@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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> <<On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:57:56 -0600, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> said:
>
> > Actually, it is a bug. The drivers in the tree should grok these pnp
> > ids.
>
> Actually, no, it is not a bug. The FreeBSD drivers for these devices
> manage their resources differently from the way the Windows drivers
> do, and the result is not unexpected if you look closely at the dump
> in verbose mode.
I'll say this for the seventeenth time, it is a bug; it's in the way that
a) hints are handled, and b) the way that the console code currently
works.
It's also not really dangerous, so most people ignore it. There are much
bigger problems to worry about. 8)
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