Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 23:56:51 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/pci pci_cfgreg.c Message-ID: <20020905.235651.39463619.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20020905131424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200209051707.g85H780f056337@freefall.freebsd.org> <XFMail.20020905131424.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On 05-Sep-2002 John Baldwin wrote: >Speaking of the interrupt routing table, there is a BIOS call you can >make to retrieve the darn thing and we should probably do that first >and only search memory to find one if the BIOS call fails. Comments? I found that the BIOS call was completely unreliable on too many machines to be a viable alternative. It was added late in the game, and many folks don't implement it quite right. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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