From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 15:26:03 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5959B16A46C for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B26613C4C3 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:26:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [172.23.170.136] (helo=anti-virus01-07) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HU2hN-0004V3-HW; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:26:01 +0000 Received: from [62.31.10.181] (helo=[192.168.0.2]) by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HU2hM-0007Yd-Oc; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:26:00 +0000 Message-ID: <46014E88.4040103@dial.pipex.com> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:26:00 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20061205 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper References: <46013F75.2060508@dial.pipex.com> <46014A3F.5040609@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <46014A3F.5040609@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Kernel error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:26:03 -0000 Garrett Cooper wrote: >> You can ignore it; it an advisory message only. The chipset used for >> sis0 needs some different parameters if you use a short cable - I >> believe these come from the manufacturer. In fact, with an sis0 >> chipset I always get this message even when using a cable which I >> believe is not "short", but everything works just fine. >> > > Hasn't happened with me under 6.x/7 with my two sis enabled > motherboards that I've had. > If memory serves me correctly though, I might have seen this with > my rl enabled card under 5.x though, when I used to run that version.. My bet would be that the message was confusing and of no practical use to end-users so was removed. I'd bet that the whatever register fixes or whatever that were done under 5.4 persist in 6.X, just without the warning. Feel free to check CVS to prove me right or wrong :-) --Alex