FreeBSD 7.0 SATA Controller

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 11:03:16PM +0100, Dieter wrote:
> > > > > the next step im going
> > > > > to take is installing 6.2 and remaking the world but adding device
> > > > > aptic to the kernel.
> > > > 
> > > > I think you mean "device apic" to the kernel?
> > > 
> > > No, it is "device aptic".  It was in 6 but removed from 7.  I had to add
> > > aptic to get my nforce4-ultra board to boot 7.  Given that 6 runs on
> > > Shaun's machine and 7 doesn't, adding aptic is a useful thing to try.
> > 
> > There is no "aptic" device on RELENG_6.  I just did a grep -ri "aptic"
> > /usr/src on our RELENG_6 box and found absolutely no trace of said
> > device.  You are thinking of "apic".
> 
> Typo.  Should be "device atpic".

Ah yes.  That would be the classic AT-style PIC used for interrupt
handling.  That makes much more sense.  :-)

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