Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:23:31PM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
- taking the all-too-ubiquitous Intel ICH7 thru 9 family - (Tyan, Asus,
GigaByte Core-D/Core-2 MB), FreeBSD had been erratic to the point of
requiring either staying with older releases AND NOT 'STABLE', OR
disconnecting from that onboard chipset and moving the drives to
SiliconImage add-on controllers. Both PATA and SATA drives.
That sounds more like a bug in the ATA code and not the interrupt
routing.
ACK. T'would certainly seem so - but IIRC that is not where the fix was
needed. Been over a year since I still cared much, so stale info now...
- Likewise a period where there were problems introduced w/r Broadcom
GigE NIC chipsets that had not been problematic in earlier versions.
- parallel port drivers that did not work were not on our radar
(rackmount servers..)
Same for both.
Joerg
Parport was a one-off. Had been broken for a longish time.
Broadcom NIC's had worked in 6-PRE thru 6.2 REL, then been broken.
Bit of good news, OTOH.
As of an hour or two ago, - 8-CURRENT has loaded on a 'white bread'
Lenovo 3000 G400 and is using everything but the WiFi and modem.
I still have a slice left, so will go off and see if DragonFly likes
that machine....
