From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 2 14: 9:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD9E37B4CF; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:09:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA2MEjF01406; Thu, 2 Nov 2000 14:14:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011022214.eA2MEjF01406@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Akinori MUSHA" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/20379 In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:17:05 +0900." <86d7geoyzy.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:14:45 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Forwarding this to stable, as I've sent it to current by mistake.. > > At Fri, 03 Nov 2000 06:14:49 +0900, > I wrote: > > > > Would someone take a look at i386/20379, which adds support for Intel > > 450GX chipset? > > > > The fix is simple enough to get into 4.2-RELEASE. Intel 450GX used to > > be a highend chipset for servers in the PentiumPro era, and such a > > chipset should be supported by 4.2-RELEASE! :) > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20379 The feedback on this PR is confusing. It sounds like the register-level PCI configuration space probe fails, but this is basically the same code that's in 3.x. At any rate, I am a little wary of bringing the PCI BIOS config space access functions back to 4.x so late. I should have looked at this earlier, I'm sorry. On the other hand, there *is* an easy workaround to turn them off, so in the worst case we would have an escape route. Jordan, what's your feeling on this? I don't have a 450GX board to test with. 8( -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message