From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 29 9:57:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10C0314E7E for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:57:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA26561 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:57:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA39832 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 18:57:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4934152DC for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:57:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA09814; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:56:40 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpdAAAuFaqht; Fri Oct 29 09:56:32 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA15890; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:56:56 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199910291656.JAA15890@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Racing interrupts To: nate@mt.sri.com Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 16:56:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, rjesup@wgate.com, imp@village.org, arch@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199910270204.UAA21334@mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Oct 26, 99 08:04:20 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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