Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:14:39 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: mike ryan <msr@elision.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot Message-ID: <200011172314.QAA78313@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Nov 2000 17:22:51 EST." <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net> References: <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net> <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>
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In message <20001117172251.A34915@medianstrip.net> mike ryan writes: : On 11/17/00, Warner Losh wrote: : > In message <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> Steve Price writes: : > : Yep, that did it. Since Dell laptops are so commonplace it : > : would be nice get this fixed in the GENERIC before the release : > : goes out. I'm sure there is a more appropriate fix, but the : > : following patch worked for me. : > : > 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. : : are the reasons why polling doesn't work on some hardware well : understood? I wasn't aware that polling wasn't working until very recently. I don't have a good idea how many machines this impacts. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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