Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:46:04 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org, committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About that 'new-bus' stuff. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904121943010.74823-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <19990412175644.7DE5F1F4F@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > [...] > Right now, the core functionality is operating nicely, but there are a few > key missing bits. Specifically, wd.c doesn't (and can't) build, it needs > changes like the fd.c driver. The ISA PnP and EISA code hasn't been > updated to use the new interfaces. (Soren's new ata driver works). The > pccard etc driver compiles but has not been updated yet. The direction > the pccard stuff will go in isn't clear yet. I should add that SMP machines will not work with the new-bus repository just yet since I haven't got my head around the apic interrupt remapping thing yet. An SMP machine with a UP kernel would work as a stopgap. > > Hopefully Doug won't shoot me for misrepresenting something. :-) Of course not :-) The only thing I would change in the history is that the kernel linker work pre-dates the alpha port and that the main reason I wrote it was to support the new driver model. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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