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Date:      Tue, 04 Sep 2001 00:10:17 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        bmah@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Documenting pcic changes to -CURRENT and -STABLE 
Message-ID:  <200109040610.f846AHh31270@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Sep 2001 21:38:49 PDT." <200109040438.f844cnt16772@intruder.bmah.org> 
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In message <200109040438.f844cnt16772@intruder.bmah.org> Bruce A. Mah writes:
: Ah, OK.  I had these two concepts intertwined.  Thanks for the other 
: comments by the way.  Take 2 is appended for feedback...

This looks much better.

: 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
:      <literal>ENV</literal> directive.</para>
:  
: +    <para>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.

Good.

: +    Some
: +    hosts may experience problems with PCI interrupt routing; they can
: +    frequently be made to work by forcing the older-style ISA
: +    interrupt routing.

I'd mention hangs specifically here.


Other than that, I think we're getting very close.

Warner

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