Re: Sony SRX87 gets no interrupts

Jerry A! <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Organization Broken Toys Unlimited
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 10:07:25AM -0700, Brad Karp wrote:

[snip snip, sorry can't help with the PXE stuff]

: I should add that if I boot 4.6-RELEASE from a Sony PC-Card CD-ROM drive
: (known to work on earlier Sony laptops with FreeBSD), that boot *also* hangs,
: though after the "mounting ufs:/dev/md0c" message. My hunch is that hang
: also occurs because the system isn't generating any clock interrupts...I
: can't imagine a running kernel gets far without them.

Have you tried booting from cdrom with the following options typed in at
the 'Ok' prompt?

    set hw.pcic.irq=0
    set hw.pcic.intr_path=1

It appears that the CD51 doesn't play well unless ISA routing is used.
Hopefully, this will solve your pesky cdrom booting issues.

        --Jerry

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