From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 24 11:37:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA16716 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pluto.plutotech.com (mail.plutotech.com [206.168.67.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16702 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:37:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@plutotech.com) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by pluto.plutotech.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA28761; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:37:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199809241837.MAA28761@pluto.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Adam McDougall , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: options DPT_LOST_IRQ In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 24 Sep 1998 20:00:44 +0200." <19980924200044.27705@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 12:30:29 -0600 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >This option is necessary due to interrupts being eaten by the serial >driver 'fast interrupt' code (which in some cases blocks interrupts >longer than the DPT assert them). Wow. I thought that the fast interrupt code could only cause interrupts to be deferred, never eaten. Did anyone ever talk to Bruce about this? I'd hate to have a situation where lots of drivers each have their own little timeout handler to deal with this problem. >Eivind. -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message