From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 31 21:43:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA28233 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 31 May 1995 21:43:02 -0700 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA28227 for ; Wed, 31 May 1995 21:43:00 -0700 Message-Id: <199506010443.VAA28227@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by crh.cl.msu.edu (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA09055; Thu, 1 Jun 1995 00:42:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 00:42:53 -0400 From: Charles Henrich To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with 2.0.5-Alpha and SMC Elite Ultra X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #10 (NOV) Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > Yes; when the kernel is configured for the board to be at a specific irq, > the board must be at that irq or you'll get the timeouts. The previous > behavior was to always assume that the soft-configed irq that was read from > the board was the irq to use. This caused the driver to be quite broken for > people using the "hard" settings. You can have the old behavior if you specify > "irq ?" in the config file or 0 or -1 in userconfig (-c at bootup). Wait a minute, how come the change? I would expect that the vast vast majority of cards out there are using soft settings, why not make the hard-settings folks have to go into -c and leave it for soft settings as the normal case (Which is the more common case afterall!) -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/