From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 7 19:43:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA16832 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:43:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA16827 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:43:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29622; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:43:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19970807194336.27057@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 19:43:36 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Tom Samplonius Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AUTO_EOI_* ? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Tom Samplonius on Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 07:12:34PM -0700 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius scribbled this message on Aug 7: > > It seems that the AUTO_EOI_* options might speed interupt handling. > I've tried them on some motherboards, and they seem to work ok. Are these > options recommended? I've seen some talk that these options should be > eliminated? well... don't make AUTO_EOI_2 enabled by default... I have a motherboard that dies when this option is enabled... though I haven't found one yet when AUTO_EOI_1 is enabled... the comments say that AUTO_EOI_1 will break suspend/resume on some notebooks... so it looks like we can't enable both by default... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD