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Date:      Thu, 13 Dec 2001 11:04:53 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Please review: changes to MI bus code for sparc64
Message-ID:  <3C18FBD5.598CDC28@mindspring.com>
References:  <200112131901.fBDJ1hl02003@mass.dis.org>

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Mike Smith wrote:
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> > - add a 'PCI_BROKEN_INTPIN' option. It activates a workaround for a
> >   bug in some Sun PCI devices, which have the intpin register wired to
> >   0 although they use this interrupt generation mechanism.
> 
> This is the wrong way to do it.  Fake the intpin access in the MD PCI
> config space handler, and don't make it optional; if you know the device
> is broken, fake it.  If it's not, don't.

I like Mike's answer better than mine, for this item.  8^).

-- Terry

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