From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 17 16:10:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C9EB37B400 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:10:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F73343E31 for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (IDENT:brdavis@localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g6HNAiri016588; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:10:44 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g6HNAilV016587; Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:10:44 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 16:10:44 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Frode Nordahl Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When will PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES be default? Message-ID: <20020717161044.A14796@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <49500.80.212.246.133.1026946735.squirrel@epost.powertech.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <49500.80.212.246.133.1026946735.squirrel@epost.powertech.no>; from frode@nordahl.net on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:58:55AM +0200 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:58:55AM +0200, Frode Nordahl wrote: >=20 > It seems like PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES makes FreeBSD work on a lot of portable > computers and possible newer desktop computers with lazy BIOS'es. > As it is now, it is quite a hassle to complete something as simple as a > network install of FreeBSD on an affected computer. > My question is, when will PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES be default? Probably never. :( While it fixes a number of devices on certain machines (including my current and previous laptop) it breaks other devices so we can't win. It should be possiable to make this tunable at boot time to remove the need for a kernel rebuild though. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9NflzXY6L6fI4GtQRAo2mAJ9f8N+ZqUbJWyIW4YTozDhtNvfGJQCfXHTS a9ENp21AzVy9Dw3k2ytiT7c= =bt16 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message