From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 12 17:44: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from firebat.bushong.net (c128625-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.176.225.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0093137B43F for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:44:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbushong@firebat.bushong.net) Received: (from dbushong@localhost) by firebat.bushong.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f3D0i0x41202 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbushong) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 17:42:45 -0700 From: David Bushong To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA gone? Message-ID: <20010412174245.D12643@bushong.net> References: <02db01c0c1b1$c1a0ffe0$0508a8c0@lofi.dyndns.org> <20010410123317.A73359@irrelevant.org> <200104101342.f3ADgsn15019@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010410153425.I5028@adriel.net> <20010410134934.Z15938@fw.wintelcom.net> <20010412150542.M5028@adriel.net> <20010412190042.A11761@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010412190042.A11761@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:00:42PM -0500 X-Floating-Sheep-Port: 0xbaa Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What is the right place to put this? /boot/loader.conf? What's the command? Why isn't this in /usr/src/UPDATING? --David Bushong On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 07:00:42PM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 03:05:42PM -0500, adriel wrote: > > I suppose my frustration comes from changing something that worked > > perfectly for no good reason, what exactly was wrong with compiling that > > flag in the kernel, and why was it deemed "obsolete". I understand how > > to do it now, but my point remains, why was I forced to change, what > > advantage did I receive from this? I am not running -CURRENT. > > > > the main problem in my situation is that I have a DMA hd sharing an IDE > > cdrom, if you dont enable the ATAPI_DMA then it wont allow dma on the > > hard drive either. Maybe there is a good reason for this, but I still > > do not understand why something that was not breaking the system would > > be arbitrarily removed without any warning. The only POSSIBLE advantage > > I could have seen with moving this to be sysctl only is that you could > > change it without rebooting, and even that is not the case. > > Just because you don't run -CURRENT doesn't mean things aren't subject > to change. Nobody is forcing you to cvsup; you don't have to change > things if you don't want to. > > To keep a static system, run -RELEASE. > > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message