From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 13:30:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA10942 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:30:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10927; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 13:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id WAA01885; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:15:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id WAA00712; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:04:26 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970719220426.30355@gtn.com> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 22:04:26 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: dg@root.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am contemplating the following change... References: <199707191221.FAA23412@freefall.freebsd.org> <199707191310.GAA18559@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199707191310.GAA18559@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 06:10:40AM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, Jul 19, 1997 at 06:10:40AM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > >Rationale: > > > > 1. With the advent of visual userconfig, we don't need redundant > > devices (remember: the goal here is installation, not every > > possible router/www server/etc configuration). > > > > 2. I think that the historical IRQ value of 5 for ed0 is > > more historical than valuable. :-) > > > >Comments? > > 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. But what's in todays computing environment the most case ?! If people do have LPT2: or a soundcard, then IRQ 5 isn't free. I can't remember any personal configuration nor in our company, where we used IRQ 5 for network cards. I think Jordans changes do reflect todays situation best. -- Andreas Klemm | klemm.gtn.com - powered by Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/SMP.html http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/SMP/benches.html