Subject: Re: Boot properties, take 3
To: Andrew Doran <ad@netbsd.org>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/20/2007 06:39:48
On 20-Jun-07, at 5:23 AM, Andrew Doran wrote:
> That's what I'd like to do for x86. The issue there is whether  
> including
> ioapic causes problems with interrupt routing on some systems. I  
> don't know
> what the state of play is with that.

ioapic can be disabled at runtime with userconf (and persisted with  
bootprops).

> If the pci fixup stuff can be controlled from the boot prompt, is  
> there a
> reason not to ditch the options and make it something always  
> included along
> with pci?

That's what I'm doing now, except the options still work (to allow  
you to set the default value).

Cheers,
Jared