Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:43:40 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PUC_FASTINTR broken 
Message-ID:  <20020904193553.C880-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <98247.1031127492@critter.freebsd.dk>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

> In message <20020904175411.B638-100000@gamplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
> >INTR_FAST is an option for pci devices.  It was configured (not quite right)
> >by the PUC_FASTINTR option, which should work just as well as the similar
> >but much older CY_PCI_FASTINTR option (perfectly if the interrupt is not
> >shared).
>
> It doesn't work right if the puc manages to register the interrupt as
> FAST before we realize that it is shared.

That is not a problem, since it is the configurer's responsibility to not
use PUC_FASTINTR if it would not work.  PUC_FASTINTR exists precisely to
let the configurer make the correct choice, sint the driver and new-bus
cannot.

> >This change blows away the support for that option without even removing
> >the option from conf/options, conf/NOTES or puc.4, and without even
> >noting approval of the author of the code.
>
> I have yet to clean that fluff.

Please don't.

Bruce


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020904193553.C880-100000>