From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Sep 3 21:39: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D7837B409; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:38:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intruder.bmah.org ([24.176.204.87]) by femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010904043850.VNIW13169.femail44.sdc1.sfba.home.com@intruder.bmah.org>; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:38:50 -0700 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id f844cnt16772; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:38:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200109040438.f844cnt16772@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Documenting pcic changes to -CURRENT and -STABLE In-Reply-To: <200109030814.f838E6h24548@harmony.village.org> References: <200109030526.f835Qg009572@intruder.bmah.org> <200109020412.f824CkD03205@intruder.bmah.org> <200108312226.f7VMQWk00844@intruder.bmah.org> <200109010833.f818X0h10099@harmony.village.org> <200109020416.f824G9h17457@harmony.village.org> <200109030814.f838E6h24548@harmony.village.org> Comments: In-reply-to Warner Losh message dated "Mon, 03 Sep 2001 02:14:06 -0600." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-686293578P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 21:38:49 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-686293578P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Warner Losh wrote: > In the new system, CardBus cards always ATTACH to the PCI bus, but > they can route intererupts either via the PCI path or via the ISA > path. Ah, OK. I had these two concepts intertwined. Thanks for the other comments by the way. Take 2 is appended for feedback... Thanks! Bruce. Index: new.sgml =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml,v retrieving revision 1.123 diff -u -r1.123 new.sgml --- new.sgml 2001/09/03 06:30:17 1.123 +++ new.sgml 2001/09/04 04:34:53 @@ -240,6 +240,22 @@ as tuneables) at compile-time using &man.config.8;'s ENV directive. + On many modern hosts, PCCARD devices can be configured to + route their interrupts via either the ISA or PCI interrupt paths. + The &man.pcic.4; driver has been updated to support both interrupt + paths (formerly, only routing via ISA was supported). In most + cases, configuration of PCMCIA devices in laptops is simpler and + more flexible. In addition, various Cardbus bridge PCI cards + (such as those used by Orinoco PCI NICs) are now supported. Some + hosts may experience problems with PCI interrupt routing; they can + frequently be made to work by forcing the older-style ISA + interrupt routing. The following lines, placed in + /boot/loader.conf or typed to the boot loader + may fix the problem. &merged; + + hw.pcic.intr_path=1 +hw.pcic.irq=0 + Processor/Motherboard Support --==_Exmh_-686293578P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7lFrZ2MoxcVugUsMRAgLfAJ9BkHZ/ikQHR4D30+CFluCujGMsVgCdGjFk Fv/LE0HvbUgKyHD+E6L5jsw= =C7p8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-686293578P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message