From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 13:30:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10907 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10894; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:30:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id WAA01884; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:15:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id WAA01059; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:14:28 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970719221428.10703@gtn.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:14:28 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Michael Smith Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... References: <199707191221.FAA23412@freefall.freebsd.org> <199707191434.AAA14215@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199707191434.AAA14215@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Sun, Jul 20, 1997 at 12:04:57AM +0930 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, Jul 20, 1997 at 12:04:57AM +0930, Michael Smith wrote: > > 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. Network cards are so inexpensive in nowadays ... I think people won't have to use the 8 Bit ones never more. And if you need, you can change the values in visual kernel config ... I think IRQ 5 for network cards is only needed in rare cases. IRQ 10 is a more sane default. Or do you all wanna say, that most people install FreeBSD without X11 on a 80386 form 1990 ?! Is FreeBSD turing PC's into workstations or is it only used for lamer PC hardware ?! -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html