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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Fine I will do it  however I am not going to change the interface and 
deal with the "freebsd hackers" and possibly third party driver
developers which I don't know about. 

I am posting to the list so others will know what we are up to and
avoid god forbid duplication of efforts 8)

	Cheers,
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo :
> > If auto dma calls are made for references higher than  16mb then
> > the system should panic. Given that isa_dmastart is of type void
> > and that we are the only ones so far using auto dma it should not
> > be a problem cause we are responsible for allocating memory
> > for the sound driver.
> 
> correct.
> 
> > The isa interface should be revised to be able to return error codes howeve
r
> > I am not going to do it nor is recommended that we do it for the sound 
> > driver release thats a function of the  "core group" because it involves
> > changing drivers and  is not easy to get the freebsd hackers 
> > to agree on anything. Probably the later is the most overriding factor.
> 
> agreed. As for driver changes this should not be much of a problem
> since very few drivers turn out to actually use it. I am not sure where
> I should look at but:
>     prova# grep -l isa_dmastart /sys/i386/isa/*c
>     asc.c
>     fd.c
>     ft.c
>     gsc.c
>     isa.c
>     wt.c
> 
>     prova# grep -l isa_dmastart /sys/compile/PROVA/*
>     asc.o
>     dmabuf.o
>     fd.o
>     isa.o
>     kernel
> 
> > So please just clean up isa_dmastatus & isa_dmastop and the rest of
> > your suggestions I will be happy to do them. The last thing is to
> 
> Can you do that please ? I have no time to do it today and I'll be back
> to office only next wednesday.
> 
> 	Cheers
> 	Luigi