From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 12:06:25 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B1D31065689 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:06:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mavbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97898FC1A for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:06:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so1218409fxm.13 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:06:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Pdo8OlKAJiwxbJzYVoP1GADGh7/dsV+DdtqtGJxp1pw=; b=mvjMf7vC+lLJs3YZqMcEwYFpf2fA2jJdqiTXGkgrZ1wqLyI2dkztiZs/AudExHTnlE 3KBIl7pwn1BiL/MuYe6DUyV2Hs6oqVtvz5YllLJxa4EO7XP4D6fXLtsCcP0x1n9ABJvV PCcPBOBvSjzQQlcPc0FcC9JF7jBwXi9l3/pFI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=OPWvXt48bUCd2P5n23F3P6WaDwZpRHGpBqYXqvGFzz7itfrTK6Tbfn4WA+IOn334+V r7TYQl0a2savbKrxqyGlzUgZvtJMtdVI73gtKx3p8YJMWgNSz7vBoIO0KUWF0Eouayw5 nV7XYqFG+1ICOaDZpBnAoPxfAKr5u57tMtQ+U= Received: by 10.223.117.73 with SMTP id p9mr9785251faq.56.1280318783600; Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mavbook.mavhome.dp.ua (pc.mavhome.dp.ua [212.86.226.226]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id q17sm2537512faa.21.2010.07.28.05.06.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 Jul 2010 05:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Alexander Motin Message-ID: <4C501D3B.1070509@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:06:19 +0300 From: Alexander Motin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100402) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= , FreeBSD-Current References: <867hkfncod.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: k3b causing system freeze/panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:06:25 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav writes: >> Andriy Gapon writes: >>> Michael Butler writes: >>>> I have a custom kernel for my laptop which uses ATA_CAM rather than >>>> the now aging ATA driver .. >>> You do realize that ATA_CAM just (well, mostly) introduces a wrapper >>> around the "now aging ATA driver" ? >> Only for legacy drives, but since Micahel's panic message contains >> "current process = 12 (irq15: ata1)", his BIOS is probably in legacy >> mode. > > Sorry, I misparsed ATA_CAM as ahci. Why on earth would anyone want to > use ATA_CAM these days? Because there is still a lot of legacy controllers, while ata(4)'s bus management code is buggy in some aspects, that are difficult to fix without complete rewrite. ATA_CAM wrapper replaces all that problematic code and works better now. -- Alexander Motin