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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>
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Subject: Re: Critical Regions Round II
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010323182612.jhb@FreeBSD.org> "from John Baldwin at Mar
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John Baldwin writes:
> > Shouldn't these be, e.g.,
> > 
> >   i386_disable_intr(), i386_enable_intr()
> > 
> >     and
> > 
> >   ia64_enable_intr(), ia64_disable_intr()
> > 
> > That is, it seems like "machine dependent" has a strict meaning,
> > it means: specific to a single (one) architecture.
> 
> Sticking all MD stuff under a ${MACHINE_ARCH}_* namespace might be an
> interesting project in the future, but it wouldn't be a small undertaking.

Gotcha. Well anyway we could make a small start with these two functions :-)

-Archie

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