From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 27 10:18:57 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 0778714E01 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:18:54 -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 TAA12413 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:18:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id TAA27895 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 19:18:52 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 028F514FF6 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:18:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (ind.alcatel.com 2.3 [OUT])) id KAA08974; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:17:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA01634; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:17:25 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn7.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA04938; Wed, 27 Oct 99 10:17:14 PDT Message-Id: <381733A1.B14908D2@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 11:17:21 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, rjesup@wgate.com, imp@village.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Racing interrupts References: <199910270140.SAA16700@usr02.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Terry Lambert wrote: > > The point is that, while I agree it's a lot of work, the problem > _is_ resolvable, and that's what FreeBSD should really be striving > to achieve. Except with explicitly non-conformant drivers, this > problem has been solved on Windows 98 and 2000. This design carries over into Compact PCI as well; something we should be looking towards for both embedded and server applications. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message