From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 24 11:58:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20793 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:58:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from roma.coe.ufrj.br (roma.coe.ufrj.br [146.164.53.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA20662 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 11:58:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonny@jonny.eng.br) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by roma.coe.ufrj.br (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA16035; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:49:33 -0300 (EST) (envelope-from jonny) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199809241849.PAA16035@roma.coe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: Bug or feature ? My FreeBSD mobile experience. In-Reply-To: <199809241705.LAA05726@mt.sri.com> from Nate Williams at "Sep 24, 98 11:05:48 am" To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:49:33 -0300 (EST) Cc: trost@cloud.rain.com, nate@mt.sri.com, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org #define quoting(Nate Williams) // > > // It's probably a bug in your PCIC where it doesn't send interrupts when a // > > // card is inserted/removed like it's supposed to. // > // > > Is there an option to enable it ? // > // > Nope, but you can add code to put it back. // > // > Might put in a kernel config flag for that...? // // I'd rather see FreeBSD 'fixed' (if possible) so that it does the right // thing and sets up the IRQ's properly. Either that or completely disable // the insertion/removal interrupts since it's just wasting a (precious) // IRQ for no reason. Do you know how other operating systems address that problem ? If you do polling, where do you do it ? At the clock interrupt ? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis M.Sc. Student jonny@jonny.eng.br Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro "This .sig is not meant to be politically correct." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message