Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 11:57:19 -0500 From: Andrew Lankford <andrew.lankford@verizon.net> To: gnats@freebsd.org, amd64@freebsd.org Cc: nb_root@videotron.ca Subject: Re: amd64/67745: boot fails on compaq presario r3000z Message-ID: <4185196F.5030705@verizon.net>
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>Because it removes code that does something on other machines. No one >has done a good analysis of why this fixes booting on a few models of >laptops. Thus we don't understand the consequences of this change. >-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) On account of the fact that my machine was no longer bootable shortly after the long awaited kernel module loading improvements (due to acpi/keyboard driver/whoknowswhat), I've been reluctant to fiddle around further with Kim's patch. I just noticed though that I never tried compiling the kernel on any machine with KBDIO_DEBUG set to some high value (I take it you can do this from buildkernel?). Maybe that would be useful, provided that the tester doesn't set it to a value high enough to bring the machine to its knees. In the end, I suppose some major FreeBSDer will do a keyboard code overhaul eventually as "atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]" still shows up on my p3 machine boot log. Then everything will be peachy or peachy/much worse/peachy/much much worse/peachy... Andrew Lankfordhome | help
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