From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 29 23:34:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22246 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA22241 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 23:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id BAA00324; Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:34:21 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199708300634.BAA00324@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: New warning, should I worry? In-Reply-To: <199708300508.BAA20739@smoke.marlboro.vt.us> from john hood at "Aug 30, 97 01:08:43 am" To: cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (john hood) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 01:34:20 -0500 (EST) Cc: grog@lemis.com, imp@rover.village.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk john hood said: > > I've changed the message so it only appears when the bit is set (DMA > has been configured) and the boot -v flag is set. I'm still modestly > curious to hear reports of motherboards and controller BIOSes that do > set it (they're unusual), but I no longer need to know in order to get > things working. > Supermicro P6DNF does. I can turn the message on and off by flipping an ON/OFF in the bios. I usually prefer for it to be off, but some might like to see it :-). It depends on my mood :-). (Actually, the bit appears to be quite useless...) -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com