On 08-Feb-01 Andrea Campi wrote:
>>
>> My patches may help with this, but they are a lot more than just a single
>> change, they are an overhaul of the interrupt threads code. :) If you are
>> really curious, you can find them at
>> http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/sys.patch. Currently, however, they
>> reduce
>> the system to a crawl. Well, at least console I/O feels like a 2400 baud
>> modem. I'm even losing characters on the keyboard. :(
>
> Sort of killing a mosquito with a missile ;-)
>
> Seriously, I will try your patch to confirm it works, then I'll go back
> to a regular -current kernel and live without ejecting the card...
Keep your kernel.old around. Trust me, the new kernel won't be very usable.
:)
> In case I was not clear: at the moment pccard and cardbus devices can't
> share IRQ line with any kind of other devices. The best explanation of
> this mentioned only pccard and said it was handled as ISA so you coulnd't
> share, but in theory it was possible to handle pccard in a different way.
> And cardbus shouldn't be a problem at all I think.
cardbus already shares. pccard under NEWCARD shares as well. My work is at a
lower-level than that though, that is in the pccard/cardbus specific code.
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