From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 2 14:30:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A632437B479 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:30:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA2MYwF01536; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:34:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011022234.eA2MYwF01536@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/20379 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:17:58 PST." <26463.973203478@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:34:58 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > On the other hand, there *is* an easy workaround to turn them off, so in > > the worst case we would have an escape route. > > > > Jordan, what's your feeling on this? I don't have a 450GX board to test > > with. 8( > > I feel it looks like a small but smelly hack and I also have bad > feelings about it. :) What's this "easy workaround to turn them off" > you're alluding to? set machdep.pci.bios="disable" in the loader disables searching for (and thus use of) the PCI BIOS interface. If you check back up the log for this PR, you'll see that an earlier respondent has indicated that the PCI BIOS code on these boards seems to DTRT where our own register-level code doesn't. Alternatively (a POLA issue, I guess at worst) I can bring it in but default it to "disable", so that people with this problem will have to set it to "enable". Then it would become an errata issue. As I mentioned elsewhere though, the PCI BIOS code has been remarkably complaint-free over the last ~6mo or so in -current... -- ... 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-stable" in the body of the message