From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 4 20:28:38 2004 Return-Path: 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 71F0C16A4CE for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:28:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail3.speakeasy.net (mail3.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E4BB43D41 for ; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 20:28:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 13772 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2004 20:28:38 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Oct 2004 20:28:37 -0000 Received: from [10.50.40.210] (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i94KSU5l058953; Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:28:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:48:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <1096849178.859.45.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <1096849178.859.45.camel@leguin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200410041348.07691.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: Eric Anholt cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Removing generic AGP options X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 20:28:38 -0000 On Sunday 03 October 2004 08:19 pm, Eric Anholt wrote: > I would like to remove the generic support from the various AGP > drivers. These are the cases of matching the vendor and PCIC_BRIDGE || > PCIS_BRIDGE_HOST with AGP capabilities. My reasoning is that, while we > sometimes get lucky, most of the times it seems like the wrong type of > AGP driver attaches, and people get unexplained hangs when doing > "startx." One example would be myself with a new AMD64 system, where > agp_via attached when agp_amd64 looks like what was necessary. I know > we've had examples of this before with agp_amd, agp_via, and agp_intel > in the past. Any opposition? > > I think most of our drivers have the PCI IDs they currently support > anyway (I might check linux before making the change), so I don't think > this would have much impact on current users. Please. This has been a low priority item on my todo list for a while. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org