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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
> 
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