vincent wang wrote:
> Douglas Atique wrote:
>
>> There are also messages that warn about "shared interrupts" and "USB
>> OHCI controller unusable". Are these also manifestations of the same
>> problem?
>>
>>
>>
> The warning about "shared interrutps" is harmless. That message should
> have been removed.
> Not sure about the OHCI issue since the header files may be different.
>
>> About using Nevada, that's out of question for this machine. I have
>> to stick to the supported Solaris 10 with its online updates. So...
>> can anyone on this list tell when S10 Update 3 will be released and
>> whether the cardbus driver is expected for that update?
>>
>>
>>
> S10u3 may be available in Nov (Not quite sure). But cardbus will not
> be in u3 (Sure). Please understand that this is not trivial task, when
> we try to put something like this in an update release. There're
> related bugs in PCI and boot, and a large set of machines need to be
> tested before we can make a commitment to our customers.
>
>> As an aside, I don't understand one thing: when I just slip the card
>> into the slot, /var/adm/messages issues nothing and no system
>> activity seems to take place except for a few HD reads. The real
>> thing starts when I do a reconfigure reboot with the card inserted.
>> Shouldn't the system detect that the card was inserted automatically?
>> I mean, not even prtconf seems to notice the card was inserted unless
>> I do the reconfigure reboot. What is happening to the hotplug
>> behaviour in this case? (sorry for the newbieness...)
>>
>>
> The insertion interrupt is not triggered in this case. If this happens
> in Nevada with the native cardbus driver, then we can be sure that
> there's a bug. The problem can be in cardbus, pci, or even the ACPI
> tables in BIOS. We've seen in the past that alot of reasons can cause
> this.
>
> We cannot claim that we support all x86 boxes, only the set of
> machines that we or someone have tested. And you can help enlarge that
> set.
>
> Vincent.
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By the way, on my SPARCLE 500 and on my UltraBook IIi, snv_49 does not
work properly with cardbus. It looks like the card insertion interrupt
is not getting handled. I am planning on looking at that later today.
-- Garrett
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General Dynamics C4 Systems
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