ATA interrupt code broken in new ISO?

Chris Pressey cpressey at catseye.mine.nu
Wed Jun 30 10:09:26 PDT 2004


On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:14:58 +0800
David Xu <davidxu at xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is dfbsd kernel still loaded at physical 1M address ?
> Intel document says first 4M phyiscal mem may have performance hit
> with MTRR turned on, FreeBSD moved it to 4M if I remembered it
> correctly.

Could that be why I can now see the Fred boot menu while it's being
drawn?  First Fred from top to bottom, then the frame from top to
bottom, then the menu text...

Before, of course, it was drawn so fast as to appear instantaneous.

-Chris





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