Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 00:15:31 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [snd] For your review: isa.c Message-ID: <199708220715.AAA02083@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Aug 1997 07:58:31 %2B0200." <199708220558.HAA15178@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Fine I will do it however I am not going to change the interface and deal with the "freebsd hackers" and possibly third party driver developers which I don't know about. I am posting to the list so others will know what we are up to and avoid god forbid duplication of efforts 8) Cheers, Amancio >From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo : > > If auto dma calls are made for references higher than 16mb then > > the system should panic. Given that isa_dmastart is of type void > > and that we are the only ones so far using auto dma it should not > > be a problem cause we are responsible for allocating memory > > for the sound driver. > > correct. > > > The isa interface should be revised to be able to return error codes howeve r > > I am not going to do it nor is recommended that we do it for the sound > > driver release thats a function of the "core group" because it involves > > changing drivers and is not easy to get the freebsd hackers > > to agree on anything. Probably the later is the most overriding factor. > > agreed. As for driver changes this should not be much of a problem > since very few drivers turn out to actually use it. I am not sure where > I should look at but: > prova# grep -l isa_dmastart /sys/i386/isa/*c > asc.c > fd.c > ft.c > gsc.c > isa.c > wt.c > > prova# grep -l isa_dmastart /sys/compile/PROVA/* > asc.o > dmabuf.o > fd.o > isa.o > kernel > > > So please just clean up isa_dmastatus & isa_dmastop and the rest of > > your suggestions I will be happy to do them. The last thing is to > > Can you do that please ? I have no time to do it today and I'll be back > to office only next wednesday. > > Cheers > Luigi
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