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Date:      Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:28:00 +0100
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@freebsd.org>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r215708 - head/sys/compat/ndis
Message-ID:  <201011222228.00984.bschmidt@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CEADBA8.7090101@delphij.net>
References:  <201011222046.oAMKkcF3005213@svn.freebsd.org> <4CEADBA8.7090101@delphij.net>

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On Monday 22 November 2010 22:07:52 Xin LI wrote:
> On 11/22/10 12:46, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> > Author: bschmidt
> > Date: Mon Nov 22 20:46:38 2010
> > New Revision: 215708
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/215708
> >
> > Log:
> >   Resurrect amd64 support.
> >   - Many drivers on amd64 are picking system uptime, interrupt time and
> > ticks via global data structure instead of calling functions for
> > performance reasons. For now just patch such address so driver will not
> > trigger page fault when trying to access such data. In future, additional
> > callout may be added to update data in periodic intervals.
> >   - On amd64 we need to allocate "shadow space" on stack before calling
> > any function.
> >
> >   Submitted by:	Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com>
> 
> Will this be MFC'ed?

I hope I can squeeze it in before the freeze, so yes. Given the current state 
of ndis on amd64 it definitely won't make things worse.

-- 
Bernhard



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