From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu May 28 13:52:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23467 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23146 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 13:49:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01211; Thu, 28 May 1998 12:43:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805281943.MAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jose M. Alcaide" cc: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On IWill and sio: solution? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 12:20:49 +0200." <356D3A81.E646339B@we.lc.ehu.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:43:24 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id NAA23147 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Alex Povolotsky wrote: > > > > Maybe it will be wise to report fails for test 5 and 8 as warinigs, not errors? > > > > IMHO, a new kernel config option is the best solution for now. > This option (IWILL_SIO_PROBLEM, for example), could be used in > i386/isa/sio.c for ignoring the tests 5 and 8. In this way, > there wouldn't be any need to edit sio.c. You don't appear to be paying attention. Ignoring tests 5 and 8 does not "fix" the problem. It's a bandaid for *some* systems, which fails to take into account the mechanisms behind the actual problem. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message