Re: Giant Locked drivers
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[email protected]>
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Steve Kargl writes:
> Is there a list of effected drivers? Grepping /var/run/dmesg.boot
> on my system shows only "atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]". A scan of atkbd(4)
> shows
>
> This driver is required for the console driver syscons(4) or vt(4).
>
> So, setting debug.giant_drivers=1 will brick all FreeBSD workstations?
critter phk> grep -i giant /var/run/dmesg.boot
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
WARNING: Device "psm" is Giant locked and may be deleted before FreeBSD 14.0.
critter phk>
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