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

[Eugene Grosbein]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:13:15PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim 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
> 
> You have bad ACPI DSDT.  Try newer BIOS if there's any.

I've just upgraded BIOS to lastest available at support.intel.com
for my motherboard (I was wrong thinking I run latest, there were more fresh).

No change in behavour of fdc(4) in RELENG_6 and in HEAD, they still
probe fdc0 the same way, STABLE's driver still does not work
and CURRENT's works fine.

Eugene Grosbein