ATAPICAM problem

[Anton Nikiforov]

Kevin Oberman пишет:

>>Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:47:10 +0300
>>From: Anton Nikiforov <anton at nikiforov.ru>
>>Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
>>
>>Looks like i have found a problem.
>>When i disable hints file in the kernel config - everything become fine 
>>and i can now see my cd0 perfectly :)
>>Thanks everybody.
>>    
>>
>
>Ahh. Normally I would not recommend compiling hints into the kernel. The
>main value of device hints is to allow them to be easily manipulated.
>
>I'm sure that it marginally slows the boot operation, but it's way too
>easy to have something in hints that you would like to change, but, with
>hints in the kernel, you need to rebuild the kernel to make that change.
>
>I am curious why this broke atapicam, though. Did you have something
>odd in the compiled hints? Were you using the hints file in
>/boot/device.hints or GENERIC.hints?
>  
>
I was using GENERIC.hints in the kernel.

Anton

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