current-users: Re: Sony Programmable Interrupt Controller

Subject: Re: Sony Programmable Interrupt Controller
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Ed Gould <ed@left.wing.org>
List: current-users
Date: 09/05/2006 22:49:23

> Since upgrading to a 4.99.1 kernel, I have been having intermittent 
> problems with spic0 (Sony Programmable Interrupt Controller) on my Vaio 
> PCG-GRX690 laptop.  Some of the time when I boot, the device is not 
> found at all; some times it is found correctly.  This device can only 
> be discovered via ACPI.

This appears to happen every time I power up the machine and boot 
directly into NetBSD.  If I boot WinXP then NetBSD, then spic0 is found.

	--Ed