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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:25:00 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot 
Message-ID:  <200011180025.RAA78978@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:18:02 PST." <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com> 
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In message <20001117161801.A27417@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
: On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:37:28PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
: > : # This won't be changed.  polling works on more systems than a specific
: > : While it saddens me that this laptop won't boot a GENERIC 4.2
: > : without me having to tweak the IRQ (most people won't know to
: > : and even if they did wouldn't know how) I certainly understand
: > : that sometimes progress comes at a price.
: > 
: > Yes.  However, these same people are current hozed when we use IRQ 10
: > because that fails on compaqs and I think Dells (some dells, not all)
: > because IRQ 10 is used for something on the pci bus.  Other IRQs have
: > similar problems. :-(
: 
: How does win98 manage to handle all this?

It uses PNP.  Also, it implements a real cardbus bridge code to deal
with things.  We don't have either option in 4.x.

Warner



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