Quality of FreeBSD

[Mike Tancsa]

At 09:23 AM 21/07/2005, Joao Barros wrote:
>On 7/21/05, Robert Watson <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Joao Barros wrote:
> >
> > > I was hopping for you to mention user's feedback. I started this thread
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052288.html
> >
> > There are two likely causes of problems:
> >
> > (1) amr driver problems
> > (2) General PCI/interrupt/ACPI/APIC problems
>
>I suspect the 2nd

>John started debugging this with another person with similar problems
>on 5 and the debugging never got to 6 (no feedback from the other
>person): 
>http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-July/052727.html

I finally got around to testing John's last suggestion, and the 
modification allows me to boot a RELENG_6 kernel!  So there is a "work 
around" at least on my DELL PE6350.  Take a look at the thread on current 
for a full dmesg.

         ---Mike