Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 08:18:43 +0100 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Subject: Re: STABLE kern/13546: Too-verbose output from PCI probe at bootup Message-ID: <199909080818.aa15279@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Sep 1999 12:21:26 PDT." <7495.936732086@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> >The code which figures out the bushigh stuff for your machine > >probably needs a similar kludge, unless someone can say for certain > >that it isn't harful for the SMP case. > > Probably not worth the effort, since for this system at least, SMP works > just fine after probing for 253 non-existent PCI buses. The "if > (bootverbose)" just keeps it from blowing the dmesg buffer at bootup. It seemmed to work fine for us too, but if there is a possibility of some problem it's probably worth working around "properly". It only takes about 4 lines of code. (Unless someone can say this is definitely harmless in the SMP case) > (The CURRENT code doesn't even look for this "bushigh" value nor display > the "Probing" message.) All the more reason to get it right in STABLE. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi? <199909080818.aa15279>