From owner-freebsd-net Sat Sep 29 21: 3:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from ardbeg.meer.net (ardbeg.meer.net [209.157.152.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DBEB37B403 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from meer.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by ardbeg.meer.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8U438j51977; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neville-neil.com (pm3b-80.mv.meer.net [209.157.137.80]) by meer.meer.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/meer) with ESMTP id VAA20726; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200109300402.VAA20726@meer.meer.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Questions... In-Reply-To: Message from Alfred Perlstein of "Sat, 29 Sep 2001 15:30:14 CDT." <20010929153014.T59854@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:03:00 -0700 From: "George V. Neville-Neil" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The spls have no effect any longer, we're leaving them in however > to mark places where protection is needed, when a subsystem becomes > MP safe the spls are removed. As far as glabals there are actually > very few there. OK, I'll start supping -CURRENT again. > Interesting! Or perhaps a fools errand :-) I've had a few friends try to warn me off of such a project. I guess we'll see. > I would target 5.0 as that's where a bunch of activity > is going to be, I imagine a lot of changes may occur, but there's > just about zero possibility of a rewrite, that would just be absurd. That was what I was figuring. I'll be keeping in touch. Thanks, George To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message