Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:01:43 +1100 From: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Blaz Zupan <blaz@amis.net>, Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>, Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr>, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot Message-ID: <200011180001.eAI01hG22641@drugs.dv.isc.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:38:55 -0800." <XFMail.001117103855.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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> > On 17-Nov-00 Blaz Zupan wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > >> > Ok, then it is the same as leaving the "irq" part out alltogether. > >> > >> Not entirely. IRQ 0 is actually the clock. I think it is there to allow > >> you > >> to edit the IRQ during the kernel config to set it to IRQ 10 if you need t > o. > > > > Ok, so could this be the problem? I've been removing the "irq" part on the > > pccard line on all our boxes (and we have about 100 installations) and neve > r > > had a problem with it. I've never tried setting it to "irq 0". > > Removing it should be fine. I think it is more of a hack to allow an irq > setting to be there for the kernel config to pick up on and let the user edit > . > :) Which is all great and good except that it is not mentioned in UPDATING and the release notes lie (irq 0 != poll mode). So something needs to be fixed, whether it be GENERIC, the release notes or UPDATING. Mark > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc. 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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