From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jul 20 14:56:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mass.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5787837C190 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 14:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA00739; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:04:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007202204.PAA00739@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=E9rard_Roudier?= Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more on- Re: fxp0 hangs on a PC164 using STABLE In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:35:38 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 15:04:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > = > > Now, the sparc port will be more interesting because a plain 'memory = barrier' > > is not what's there - instead you have to do explicit address based f= lushing > > and/or invalidation (depending on the platform). > = > Seems Linux does cope of that without too much complexity. Actually, this is pretty easy with bus_space_barrier()... -- = =2E.. every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message