From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 22 2:43: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (dialmess.nanolink.com [217.75.135.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C46BC37B40A for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:42:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roam@ringlet.net) Received: (qmail 13076 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Aug 2001 09:41:31 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:41:31 +0300 From: Peter Pentchev To: =?windows-1251?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= Cc: Brooks Davis , sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tunable support for ata interrupt sharing Message-ID: <20010822124131.A12936@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: =?windows-1251?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , Brooks Davis , sos@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org References: <20010821123726.A15204@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200108211941.f7LJfoP18640@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1251 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108211941.f7LJfoP18640@freebsd.dk>; from sos@freebsd.dk on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:41:50PM +0200 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 On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:41:50PM +0200, Søren Schmidt wrote: > 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.... Would this be good to have in 4.4? If Brooks's laptop needs it, it would be nice to have 4.4 run on that, too.. G'luck, Peter -- If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message