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Date:      Thu, 1 Jun 1995 00:42:53 -0400
From:      Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Problem with 2.0.5-Alpha and SMC Elite Ultra
Message-ID:  <199506010443.VAA28227@freefall.cdrom.com>

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> Yes; when the kernel is configured for the board to be at a specific irq,
> the board must be at that irq or you'll get the timeouts. The previous
> behavior was to always assume that the soft-configed irq that was read from
> the board was the irq to use. This caused the driver to be quite broken for
> people using the "hard" settings. You can have the old behavior if you specify
> "irq ?" in the config file or 0 or -1 in userconfig (-c at bootup).

Wait a minute, how come the change?  I would expect that the vast vast majority
of cards out there are using soft settings, why not make the hard-settings
folks have to go into -c and leave it for soft settings as the normal case
(Which is the more common case afterall!)

-Crh
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    Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu

                     http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/



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