From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 25 18:58:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5300A37B400 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:58:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts19.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6FD43E4A for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 18:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.177.86]) by tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20020826015751.XWNR13254.tomts19-srv.bellnexxia.net@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:57:51 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g7Q0iNX60410 for ; Sun, 25 Aug 2002 20:44:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <011101c24ca4$09296310$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: Subject: Re: kern/41227: Serial port IRQs cannot be shared when they should be Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 21:58:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 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 I'm the originator of the patch in this PR. The patch allows FreeBSD to work with some USR/3Com PCI modems that share IRQs with other system devices. From the PR: > Synopsis: Serial port IRQs cannot be shared when they should be > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > State-Changed-By: njl > State-Changed-When: Fri Aug 23 17:42:14 PDT 2002 > State-Changed-Why: > Have you discussed this on -hackers or -current? There are reasons that > RF_SHAREABLE is not enabled in sio (in both -current and -stable). > The patch is not complete. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=41227 Can anyone enlighten me on the reasons for this? The user of the patch has experienced no problems using his PCI modem (sio) concurrently with his USB printer (ulpt) when both devices share IRQs. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message