Re: netbsd-5 system hangs while booting since recent kernel update

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

gson%gson.org@localhost said:
> Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> > Huh. Why aren't these FIXUPs on by default already?

I've seen cases where the fixup did more harm than good. I believe
one was on a desktop with onboard graphics which was disabled if a VGA
card was plugged in but FIXUP enabled it again. Multiple PCI-ISA
bridges also likely trigger problems. What makes it harder is
that the code is almost incomprehensible.
So I'd say the FIXUP should only be done if necessary.

> NetBSD/i386 releases used to
> include a GENERIC_LAPTOP kernel that had the FIXUP options, but at
> some point it was dropped without adding the FIXUP options to the
> GENERIC kernel.

This doesn't look like a well-thought move.

best regards
Matthias



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