On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, Scott Long wrote: > Many peripheral hardware device do not like having their registers > blindly read (it's quite common for a read operation on a register to > signal an ASIC that it's ok to do a certain action) and will respond > with nasty things like interrupt storms, endless PCI target aborts, etc. > Whether this is silly or not is not the point; this is just one of the > many places in Unix that have no seatbelts and assume that the superuser > knows what he is doing.
This is irrelevant, since "cat /dev/io" doesn't access device registers. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
