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From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
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Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 14:17:23 +0100
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:23:31PM +0800, Bill Hacker wrote:
> - taking the all-too-ubiquitous Intel ICH7 thru 9 family - (Tyan, Asus,  
> GigaByte Core-D/Core-2 MB), FreeBSD had been erratic to the point of  
> requiring either staying with older releases AND NOT 'STABLE', OR  
> disconnecting from that onboard chipset and moving the drives to  
> SiliconImage add-on controllers. Both PATA and SATA drives.

That sounds more like a bug in the ATA code and not the interrupt
routing.

> - Likewise a period where there were problems introduced w/r Broadcom  
> GigE NIC chipsets that had not been problematic in earlier versions.
>
> - parallel port drivers that did not work were not on our radar  
> (rackmount servers..)

Same for both.

Joerg