Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:07:21 -0700 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, Chia-liang Kao <clkao@CirX.ORG>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Explaining intentions (was: kernel thread support) Message-ID: <20000619130721.A65971@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006161640030.2928-100000@semuta.feral.com> References: <20000616144259.Q47268@blitz.canonware.com> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006161640030.2928-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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On Friday, 16 June 2000 at 16:41:34 -0700, Matt Jacob wrote: > > > 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. Agreed entirely. We're now frequently seeing patches and even design documents, but we seldom hear about *why* people want to make specific changes or design decisions. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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