From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 17 14:29:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D748837B4C5 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:29:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from bonsai.knology.net ([24.214.88.8]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eAHMTH727636; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:29:17 -0600 (CST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bonsai.knology.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) id eAHMSkR27481; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:28:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:28:36 -0600 From: Steve Price To: Warner Losh Cc: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot Message-ID: <20001117162836.N62344@bonsai.knology.net> References: <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <20001116195957.A62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011170209.eAH297q51130@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:03:44PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:03:44PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: # # This won't be changed. polling works on more systems than a specific # IRQ, and the IRQ to use varies so widely that any choice is likely to # be wrong. While it saddens me that this laptop won't boot a GENERIC 4.2 without me having to tweak the IRQ (most people won't know to and even if they did wouldn't know how) I certainly understand that sometimes progress comes at a price. BTW, did you do a formal survey to substantiate your claim above? I ask out of curiosity just so I understand the criteria you used to base your claim. This will surely be asked a blue gazillion times after the 4.2 bits officially hit the streets. I know you wouldn't/didn't do this but when I first read your response I couldn't help but think what if there were only six brands of laptops in the world and a million of them in use with FreeBSD. Two people own the five brands that work in polling mode and everyone else owned the one that is now semi-borked. :) BTW^2, if you have any ideas/patches that might get this laptop to work in polling I'd be more than happy to provide more info and help test whatever you come up with. Thanks. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message