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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2007 17:07:23 +0100
From:      "Attilio Rao" <attilio@freebsd.org>
To:        "Rui Paulo" <rpaulo@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Rink Springer <rink@freebsd.org>, freebsd-i386@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MacBook users: possible fix for the SMP problem
Message-ID:  <3bbf2fe10711070807h7e7fb5b8t220ad73dcdcad0c9@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <EABAF87E-087E-4E7D-AACA-0DDF8050D485@FreeBSD.org>
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2007/11/7, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>:
>
>
> If you have a MacBook, you now need to set hw.ich.disable_legacy_usb
> on the boot loader prompt or in loader.conf. I decided to go this
> route because it seems safer. Imagine the case where there's a port at
> the same IO address that has nothing to do with the ICH7. If we tried
> to issue the outl() on every system, something bad could happen.

I would prefer to let it autotune by the system, if possible, in this situation.

Great work,
Attilio


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