Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:28:40 -0700 From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options [...] Message-ID: <200205010428.g414SeOa041203@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <48280.1020192088@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <48280.1020192088@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
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If memory serves me right, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > I think that the PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES option is definitely something > we want visible in the release notes (and possibly errata, although > I doubt hardware bug descriptions can really be justified there). I > can't believe how many laptops (never seen desktops that) still need > this option, and at least one that I've encountered doesn't address the > register initialization problem in its latest available BIOS upgrade. > > For clues on a good release notes entry, see kern/32169 for a quick > synopsis and kern/26920 for a detailed example of exactly what breakage > this option works around. Hey Sheldon-- Thanks for the heads-up and the pointers! We can put something in the release notes, but that just takes care of this release. For hardware bug-type things, we could also put something in the hardware notes, which are more permanent. The i386-specific hardware notes are pretty sparse right now, but this is the kind of info that I think should go there (along with the old Pentium F00F bugfix, the Athlon SSE hack, etc.). (I might not get to this for a few days, so if anyone with itchy fingers wants to take a stab at this, that's fine with me.) Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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