On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:32:46PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: [...] > > "lptcontrol -i" and "lptcontrol -p" work for me under -current. They > presumably work because the driver sets up the interrupt for every > write(2) if interrupts are enabled. This used to cause panics because > a thread was created for every write and it was possible for threads > to be created faster than they could exit. But everything except the > thread creation and destruction seems to be necessary because the > interrupt may be switched fairly dynamically between children of ppc0. > I think this means that no one should want to force polled mode at > the ppc0 level, and its children should have control programs like > lptcontrol that permit configuring it if necessary. >
Ok, I will investigate more when I will have access to my -CURRENT box. Thanks a lot for your answers. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
