HEADSUP: pca driver being retired.

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Thu Aug 14 04:02:29 PDT 2003


In message <200308141017.h7EAHoOI089193 at grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr
ites:

>Would it be a useful exercise for the minority(?) of users who use this
>driver to either see if it can be effectively newbussed or turned into
>a port or both?

The main problem is the code which hi-jacks the i8254 and kicks off
up to 20000 interrupts per second.

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