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From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with 2.0.5-Alpha and SMC Elite Ultra
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 05:39:03 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
In-Reply-To: <199506010738.RAA24640@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jun 1, 95 05:38:06 pm
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> >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!)

> Because the old behaviour was a bug.  Configuring the irq to anything other
> than "?" (-1 in userconfig) says that you really want that irq no matter
> what the soft settings say.  You get soft settings for the normal case by
> saying what you mean ("irq ?") in the configuration.

What he's saying is, I think, that the default boot kernel should use IRQ ?.