Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:56:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, rjesup@wgate.com, imp@village.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Racing interrupts Message-ID: <199910291656.JAA15890@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199910270204.UAA21334@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 26, 99 08:04:20 pm
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> > I'd like to get agreed that it's possible to work around the crappy > > hardware, to get a roadmap laid down, even if there isn't currently > > code. > > Much of *code* that you are are screaming for *EXISTS* in FreeBSD today, > and guess what, it doesn't work very well, because of all the problems > I've pointed out. > > I wrote the code, so there's no need for roadmaps and/or long > discussions about the merits of it. The basic problem that Warner was > discussing is a 'fact of life', and fixing it to never occur is simply > not possible, and making it better than it already is implies a huge > overhead. I don't believe in impossible, and I don't care about overhead if something is worth doing. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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