Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:20:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: qa@FreeBSD.org, mobile@FreeBSD.org, John Reynolds <jjreynold@home.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: followup to problems with 4.3-RC1 for laptops Message-ID: <20010402122034.V813@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010402113358.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:33:58AM -0800 References: <20010402104419.U813@fw.wintelcom.net> <XFMail.010402113358.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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* John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [010402 11:34] wrote: > > On 02-Apr-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Shouldn't the device be able to specify an all-or-nothing request? > > > > Perhaps something that needs fast interrupts will cause much hair > > pulling if it doesn't get one becasue of latency issues messing up > > the hardware. If the bus didn't grant a fast interrupt it could then > > declien to attach, perhaps spitting out a meaningful error message > > at the same time. > > True, no need for an error message, but I suppose one could do something like > this then: Of course there's no need for an error message, everyone installing FreeBSD should be able to look at the kernel sources for his driver and figure out what's wrong with it. *gulps down another 2 sarcasm pills* -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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