Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:47:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfgang Helbig <helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dg@root.com, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... Message-ID: <199707191648.SAA29271@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> In-Reply-To: <21008.869326490@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jul 19, 97 08:34:50 am"
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> > irq 5 is used because it is the standard for all 8bit Western Digital
> > 8003 cards and all 3Com 3c503 boards. I think it might even be the standard
> > for Novell NE1000/NE2000 cards. In other words, it's far more common than
> > irq 10 which is only found on 16bit WD/SMC cards.
>
> It's far more common in the 8 bit cards, yes. I would, however,
> hypothesize that the 16 bit cards have now (or will very shortly)
> outnumber the legacy equipment. I do know that I've certainly
> received a considerable amount of negative feedback over the choice of
> 5 ("5?! Who uses that anymore? 10! The default value should be
> 10! What are you guys thinking?!") :-)
>
> How does the "user base" feel about this?
Here is the user base speeking :-()
Couple weeks ago we installed a '386 based FreeBSD firewall/router.
We had to put a 16 bit isa card (Teles 16/3) into an 8 bit isa
slot. It works well with irq 5. I suppose it wouldn't with irq 10.
So what I am telling is, there's lot of ancient hardware out there
waiting to be put back to use by FreeBSD :-)
(By the way, the firewall didn't have to be rebooted since then!)
Wolfgang
>
> Jordan
>
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