From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 21 12:41:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (fw-rl0.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E0837B403; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7LJfoP18640; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:41:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <200108211941.f7LJfoP18640@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: tunable support for ata interrupt sharing In-Reply-To: <20010821123726.A15204@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> "from Brooks Davis at Aug 21, 2001 12:37:26 pm" To: Brooks Davis Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:41:50 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Reply-To: sos@freebsd.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL88 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Brooks Davis wrote: > Attached it a patch to make sharing of the main ata control interrupts > dependent on a tunable, hw.ata.shared_irqs. This is required for my new > HP Omnibook 500 to use the CMD 648 in the expansion base to work as it > appears hardwired to interrupt 15 (which is fairly logical given that > there is no where to attach devices to the secondary channel.) If this > looks ok and you don't have time to deal with it, I'd be happy to commit > it myself. I have just today committed always sharing all irq's to -current, the consensus is that if the BIOS allows sharing it should work. This makes sense, the MB maker is the only one that knows if this is working, if they blow it in thier BIOS, well.... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message