From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 16 14:19:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09065 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA09056 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:19:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA01494; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:17:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199707162117.OAA01494@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. To: smp@csn.net (Steve Passe) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 14:17:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: phk@dk.tfs.com, smp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199707160703.BAA07318@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> from "Steve Passe" at Jul 16, 97 01:03:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > About the only card this could affect is the AHA1742 (ahb%d driver). > > Does anybody know if this card uses this feature ? > > Peter Wemm was using it in his old dual P5 without problem. This was > with APIC code that did NOT support the DMA chaining INTs (at least not > thru the 8259 PIC). The fact is that we have never supported them in the > APIC code and no one has complained so far. Its just that I am about to go > down a path that makes it "final" and want everyone to be aware. I was specifically thinking of the 1742, actually. If this works, I believe I will withdraw my objection. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.