On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:47:03AM +0200, Petr Holub wrote: > > The patch exists that modifies BTX to reflect interrupts and requests into > > the real mode, see > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/ > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch > > After booting the machine with this patch, it works like a charm, > looks fairly stable, Myrinet 10GE card up and running. So I > wonder: would it be possible to include this realbtx into 7.0-RELEASE? > It seems rather important, as many machines are now being > installed off USB CD drives and USB keys... No, it is definitely not for 7.0. There were some reports that keyboard works quite jerky under the /boot/loader, and some keystrokes were missing. Another, possible related, report was the need to press some key to actually boot, since loader timer did not work. I had no time to look at these problems. Also, it seems that code shall be conditionalized, and either alternate boot2/loader provided, or compile option present to select between vm86 btx/real btx. This was not thought of too.
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