[PATCH] remove 'device atpic'

Evgeny Piven pegas at pegas.no-ip.org
Tue Oct 18 13:42:58 PDT 2005


David O'Brien wrote:
> I think we can remove this from GENERIC in HEAD (and RELENG_6) since
> we've changed to using the lapic timer vs. using irq0.
>
> Can people please test this patch on there systems and report back to the
> _list_ the results?
>
> Index: sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC,v
> retrieving revision 1.442
> diff -u -r1.442 GENERIC
> --- sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC	8 Sep 2005 03:29:18 -0000	1.442
> +++ sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC	18 Oct 2005 16:02:35 -0000
> @@ -76,9 +76,6 @@
>  # Make an SMP-capable kernel by default
>  options 	SMP			# Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
>  
> -# Workarounds for some known-to-be-broken chipsets (nVidia nForce3-Pro150)
> -device		atpic			# 8259A compatability
> -
>  # Linux 32-bit ABI support
>  options 	LINPROCFS		# Cannot be a module yet.
>  
>   

Works fine both in HEAD and RELENG_6. However, for some reason machine 
would not boot (neither in HEAD nor in RELENG_6) when MAXMEM option is 
used. Is this reasonable behavior?

Best regards,
Evgeny Piven


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