From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 01:55:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E47016A51F for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:55:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16AA74410C for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:34:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.25]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.5/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k5N1YVal029822 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:04:32 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Pieter de Goeje Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:04:30 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200606221424.14380.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200606221323.01249.pieter@degoeje.nl> In-Reply-To: <200606221323.01249.pieter@degoeje.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4296016.IpCFV82Tie"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606231104.31514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.36 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Asus A8V IRQ/serial problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 01:55:23 -0000 --nextPart4296016.IpCFV82Tie Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 22 June 2006 20:53, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > > The ports are enabled in the BIOS and do seem to work.. mostly. I have > > had odd problems trying to talk to stuff connected to the on occasion > > though. > > Never had any problems with it. I use it for a serial console at 115200 > baud. Hmm, well I was testing it with a new type of UPS so I may have it confused= in=20 my head. Certainly my more recent testing didn't show anything up.. I am just parano= id=20 as it's about to get shipped to the Antarctic :) > I booted once with ACPI disabled, all seemed to work except that it didn't > detect the dual core cpu properly. Hmm OK.. I would prefer to boot with ACPI anyway. > AFAIK there's no such thing as a real ISA bus on amd64, including it in t= he > kernel would make little sense. Well you can probably get a PCI<->ISA bridge and a passive backplane ;) I think a better option would be to remove the test in sio.c for the AMD64= =20 case since isa_irq_pending() won't do anything. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart4296016.IpCFV82Tie Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEm0Un5ZPcIHs/zowRAuhcAJ9RguMTI43CDJDxi47PaH3yRgNo0QCdHp4F 1wIPp9YTFIJK3TJprUp0p6Y= =mmfe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4296016.IpCFV82Tie--