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Date:      Mon, 1 Jun 1998 10:48:20 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@FreeBSD.ORG, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG, grog@lemis.com
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa intr_machdep.c intr_machdep.h sio.c
Message-ID:  <199806010048.KAA23374@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>>>>   Log:
>>>>   Converted the ICU-level interrupt tests (3, 5 and 8) in sioprobe() into
>>>>   a test of the irq number, and made failure of this test non-fatal.
>>>>   Removed related unused complications for the APIC_IO case.  Removed the
>>>>   no-test3 flag.
>>>
>>> Is this intended to be a partial or a complete solution to the ALi sio
>>> problems?
>>
>> No, I don't even know what an ALi is.
>
>So how can you be sure it doesn't address the problem?
>
>This is the "Serial Ports not recognized on boot" syndrome we've been
>seeing.  In all cases, an ALi UART was involved.  Your changes look
>suspiciously like they're in that area, but I didn't know if they're
>complete yet, or even addressing exactly this problem.  I still don't.

I never claimed that they did.  They should fix a problem on one IWill
system that I tested, but this version has only been tested on systems
with NEC-compatible UARTs.

Bruce

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