From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Oct 26 19: 4:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F66414FC5 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:04:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA29313 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 04:04:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA23868 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 04:04:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A5A214FC5 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:04:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA20973; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:04:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA21334; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:04:20 -0600 Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:04:20 -0600 Message-Id: <199910270204.UAA21334@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terry Lambert Cc: rjesup@wgate.com, nate@mt.sri.com, imp@village.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Racing interrupts In-Reply-To: <199910270148.SAA17060@usr02.primenet.com> References: <199910270148.SAA17060@usr02.primenet.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd like to get agreed that it's possible to work around the crappy > hardware, to get a roadmap laid down, even if there isn't currently > code. Much of *code* that you are are screaming for *EXISTS* in FreeBSD today, and guess what, it doesn't work very well, because of all the problems I've pointed out. I wrote the code, so there's no need for roadmaps and/or long discussions about the merits of it. The basic problem that Warner was discussing is a 'fact of life', and fixing it to never occur is simply not possible, and making it better than it already is implies a huge overhead. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message