From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 25 06:22:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348D137B401 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:22:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiva.warpcore.org (shiva.warpcore.org [208.2.70.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2A343F3F for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 06:22:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drevil@warpcore.org) Received: from [65.26.140.154] (CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com [65.26.140.154]) by shiva.warpcore.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6PDMNdv020374 for ; Fri, 25 Jul 2003 08:22:23 -0500 From: Shawn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3F20D143.8F64F98B@mindspring.com> References: <20030723221109.GA790@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <1059051986.568.3.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> <3F20D143.8F64F98B@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://drevil.warpcore.org/ Message-Id: <1059139343.50681.2.camel@CPE-65-26-140-154.kc.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3 Date: 25 Jul 2003 08:22:24 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: fuword(), suword(), etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:22:25 -0000 On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 01:42, Terry Lambert wrote: > I do know that even if they remove the bridge, they are unlikely > to provide enough documentation to boot and run natively on the > hardware without having IBM code setting up the bus arbitration > and other bits that are currently undocumented. Why would IBM try to hide this? Wouldn't they *want* people to take full advantage of the processor for the best performance to help give their product a good image? -- Shawn http://drevil.warpcore.org/