From owner-freebsd-doc Tue Apr 30 21:28:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (rwcrmhc54.attbi.com [216.148.227.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44BD137B419; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:28:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc54.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020501042842.EMNO2627.rwcrmhc54.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 1 May 2002 04:28:42 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g414SfcB041204; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:28:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g414SeOa041203; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:28:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205010428.g414SeOa041203@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020416 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf options [...] In-reply-to: <48280.1020192088@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> References: <48280.1020192088@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Comments: In-reply-to Sheldon Hearn message dated "Tue, 30 Apr 2002 20:41:28 +0200." From: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:28:40 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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