From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 29 01:34:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02908 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 01:34:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (polaris.we.lc.ehu.es [158.227.6.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA02822 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 01:33:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jose@we.lc.ehu.es) Received: from we.lc.ehu.es by polaris.we.lc.ehu.es (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA12434; Fri, 29 May 1998 10:32:00 +0200 Message-ID: <356E7280.37A56F91@we.lc.ehu.es> Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 10:32:00 +0200 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" Organization: Universidad del País Vasco - Dept. Electricidad y Electrónica X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Smith CC: tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: On IWill and sio: solution? References: <199805281943.MAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. I'm paying attention. Sure! :-) > > 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. > Indeed, ignoring the tests is not a "solution", as you're saying. I'm not proposing a new kernel config option as a "solution". It's only an easy workaround for some __Iwill__ motherboards (and perhaps some Compaqs). After every update of the FreeBSD sources (using CVSup), the file sio.c is renewed. Then, before compiling a new kernel, patching sio.c is needed again, and again... If a definitive solution for this sio problem were discovered some time in the future, that kernel config option could be removed. -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-944647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-944858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message