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Subject: Re: When will busmastering be committed?
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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:30:50 -0500 (EST)
Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd@atipa.com, cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us,
        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199803120733.IAA21265@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at Mar 12, 98 08:33:45 am
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> 
> In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > > 
> > > More precisely, IDE DMA busmastering for certain chipsets (PIIX-based, et
> > > al). I believe the code was by a Mr Hood. (John Hood?)
> > 
> > Ah.  I don't think John is a regular -stable reader, nor are Soren nor 
> > John Dyson, the comitters most serious about the code.  
> > 
> > Last I recall, there were some concerns about a number of issues still 
> > outstanding.  I've copied John and Soren on this; let's see what they 
> > have to say on the matter.
> 
> Hmm, there are no immediate plans to get the DMA stuff backported to
> 2.2.X, there are differences between -current and stable that makes
> this a nontrivial task. Besides I've just found out that we have some
> nasty problems in there that we DONT want to get into -stable.
> 
I have to agree.

John


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