From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 8 09:10:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8244E16A913 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:01:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from efacilitas.de (smtp.efacilitas.de [85.10.196.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1300943D49 for ; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 07:01:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de) Received: from eurystheus.local (port-212-202-39-242.dynamic.qsc.de [212.202.39.242]) by efacilitas.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 142434C8B5; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 09:02:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (muhkuh.local [192.168.1.2]) by eurystheus.local (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001E45285B; Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:59:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4487CB4B.2020706@cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:01:31 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; de-AT; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060519 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: danial_thom@yahoo.com References: <20060607122229.12701.qmail@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060607122229.12701.qmail@web33304.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: generic kernel doesn't boot without ppc? (was: Generic Kernel suggestion) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:10:14 -0000 Danial Thom schrieb: > It seems that Freebsd 6.1 (and likely others > versions as well) will hang when booted on a > machine with no parallel port. Since many newer > MBs are leaving the PP off due to lack of > interest, it might be a good idea to fix this, > since the point of a GENERIC kernel is that its a > superset of what's needed in most cases. I think you mean a missing parallel port controller (ppc) instead of missing parallel ports, because I deactivated my parallel ports and it works without problems (ppc0: parallel port not found.). This might be an interesting issue that need further investigation. I think it will get lost at questions@ thus I posted it to current@. Björn