From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Jun 16 16:43:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01D237B9D4 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06863; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:41:41 -0700 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:41:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jason Evans Cc: Chia-liang Kao , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel thread support In-Reply-To: <20000616144259.Q47268@blitz.canonware.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 16 Jun 2000, Jason Evans wrote: > On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 03:19:56AM +0800, Chia-liang Kao wrote: > > o Is the model for the scenario described in > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/~julian/threads/ > > > > the final design decision? (then I think it shall be well documented.) > > We have made some refinements to the model, but in general, it is the same > idea. Daniel Eischen and I are working on a paper that gives a reasonable > overview of the current design. Hopefully we can get it to a postable form > in the near future. However, we're probably going to concern ourselves > primarily with actually doing the work, rather than telling everybody > beforehand exactly how we're doing it. Can please spend some effort into saying what the intents and architecture is in the paper? The current newbus stuff and CAM stuff horribly suffer from the fact that there aren't such documents. I'm currently tearing my hair out trying to intuit what should have been written down. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message