HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon

[Eugene Grosbein]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 01:09:27PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:

> >It's definetely a regression from 4.11-STABLE that runs fine on this 
> >system with ACPI fully enabled 

Hmm, I was wrong about 4.11 using ACPI - it does not use it here really,
it uses "good old" APM.

> It would be interesting to know how 4.x probes the hardware vs. how it 
> apperas in the 6.x dmesg.

4.11-STABLE:

fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0

6.2-PRERELEASE:

fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f0 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0

Eugene Grosbein