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Date:      Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:20:21 +0100 (BST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-net@freebsd.org" <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: MFC of TOE support to RELENG_7
Message-ID:  <20080420101315.G67663@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <b1fa29170804172100v1adfbf59ta608984ee8a353cd@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <b1fa29170804172100v1adfbf59ta608984ee8a353cd@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Kip Macy wrote:

> I would like to MFC TOE and RDMA support in the last week of May / first 
> week of June. My primary objective is that it be present in 7.1. The re team 
> has not yet decided when the freeze date for 7.1 will be, so I may end up 
> asking to do it earlier.

I'm not entirely opposed to MFC'ing TOE this summer, but I notice that several 
parts of what is intended to be a new public device driver interface remain 
entirely undocumented.  A necessary step before this work can be properly 
reviewed is for it to be properly documented.  A such, while not in principle 
unreasonable, I think you should consider the proposed MFC schedule somewhat 
hypothetical until that issue is resolved, allowing a more critical (and hence 
substantive) review of the interface.

I greatly appreciate, BTW, the time you've put into working to resolve the ABI 
issues raised on arch@, etc.  I hope to have a chance to look at them in more 
detail in the next couple of weeks and provide feedback.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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