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Date:      Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:10:02 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Arun Sharma <adsharma@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
Cc:        ia64@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can freebsd support intel ee870 chipset?
Message-ID:  <20021218021001.GB1583@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <u65ts2jtc.fsf@unix-os.sc.intel.com>
References:  <3FAD1088D4556046AEC48D80B47B478C0101F551@usslc-exch-4.slc.unisys.com> <u65ts2jtc.fsf@unix-os.sc.intel.com>

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On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Arun Sharma wrote:
> 
> I could boot to the sysinstall screen with the RC1 CD on this
> platform (Tiger), but then the keyboard didn't work for me. 

Excellent! (the sysinstall part, not the keyboard part :-)

> The platform requires a USB keyboard driver (doesn't have a PS/2
> port). It looks like the ia64 GENERIC kernel doesn't have usb or ukbd
> enabled. But the i386 GENERIC kernel *does* have it enabled. Is it
> possible to enable it in ia64 GENERIC kernel before the 5.0 release ?

Good info. I disabled USB because it caused the machine to hang,
but if you loaded it as a KLD after booting, everything was fine.

It seems USB is too important to leave out. I'll look into it,

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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