Subject: Re: Strange instability with -current on port-amd64
To: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@whooppee.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/04/2007 19:16:55
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Brett Lymn wrote:

> ... though, I
> did also patch (iirc) the ehci driver to clear pending interrupts
> after prising control of it away from the BIOS, I have no clue if that
> helped or not.  From what I can see in the old thread it did not
> appear to but maybe the combination of the patch and disabling irq 7
> worked.  The patch is here:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2007/06/20/0009.html

I'll give it a try.

> The other thing that came up in that thread that I have forgotten
> about is I updated the bios on my machine, that appeared to have some
> impact too.  Any bios updates for your motherboard?

Nope.  It's up to date as far as I can tell.

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