From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Nov 2 03:49:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA16713 for mobile-outgoing; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 03:49:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from gvr.gvr.org (root@gvr.gvr.org [194.151.74.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA16708 for ; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 03:49:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guido@gvr.org) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.gvr.org (8.8.6/8.8.5) id MAA04006; Sun, 2 Nov 1997 12:48:59 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199711021148.MAA04006@gvr.gvr.org> Subject: Re: card removal problems In-Reply-To: <199711020211.TAA00945@rocky.mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Nov 1, 97 07:11:32 pm" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 12:48:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nate Williams wrote: > > Just like with the PAO release I experience problems when removing a > > card from a slot. Sometimes this results in a total lockup of the > > system, while it keeps beeping. > > There is a race where it's possible that the driver in in use when you > remove it that is un-avoidable. But, this seems to happen pretty > rarely. Actually, it seems that it almost always locks up for me once a driver has ben allocated. I inserted that modem card I was talking about after applying my patch (so pcic would use not irq 3). It was not being used but still the machine locked up. I am now going to implement the power patches to see if that would solve my problem. -Guido