Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 00:04:57 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@FreeBSD.ORG (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <199707191434.AAA14215@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199707191221.FAA23412@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 19, 97 05:21:56 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > 1. With the advent of visual userconfig, we don't need redundant > devices (remember: the goal here is installation, not every > possible router/www server/etc configuration). Understood. > 2. I think that the historical IRQ value of 5 for ed0 is > more historical than valuable. :-) Er. This will break all 8-bit 'ed' cards and older 16-bit cards that only offer irq 3/4/5/9. I understand the desire to avoid irq 5 given that it is popular with soundcards however. > +device ze0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 iomem 0xd8000 vector zeintr Definitely; very few laptops these days have irq 5 not taken by sound hardware it seems. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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