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
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