Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:28:36 -0600 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mark.Andrews@nominum.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2-BETA hangs on boot Message-ID: <20001117162836.N62344@bonsai.knology.net> In-Reply-To: <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:03:44PM -0700 References: <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <20001116195957.A62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011170209.eAH297q51130@drugs.dv.isc.org> <20001116204344.B62344@bonsai.knology.net> <200011172203.PAA77619@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 03:03:44PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: # # This won't be changed. polling works on more systems than a specific # IRQ, and the IRQ to use varies so widely that any choice is likely to # be wrong. While it saddens me that this laptop won't boot a GENERIC 4.2 without me having to tweak the IRQ (most people won't know to and even if they did wouldn't know how) I certainly understand that sometimes progress comes at a price. BTW, did you do a formal survey to substantiate your claim above? I ask out of curiosity just so I understand the criteria you used to base your claim. This will surely be asked a blue gazillion times after the 4.2 bits officially hit the streets. I know you wouldn't/didn't do this but when I first read your response I couldn't help but think what if there were only six brands of laptops in the world and a million of them in use with FreeBSD. Two people own the five brands that work in polling mode and everyone else owned the one that is now semi-borked. :) BTW^2, if you have any ideas/patches that might get this laptop to work in polling I'd be more than happy to provide more info and help test whatever you come up with. Thanks. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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