From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 01:16:32 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5B616A41C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 01:16:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6EB1F43D48 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2005 01:16:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.196.53 with login) by smtp802.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 1 Jun 2005 01:16:32 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB79610C; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27761-01; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E089610A; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j511GRhs052493; Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <429D0C65.6010308@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 20:16:21 -0500 From: Jonathan Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050428) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Burden References: <006201c56633$5bc48c20$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <20050531233612.GD20906@tigerfish2.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <20050531233612.GD20906@tigerfish2.my.domain> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 OpenPGP: id=991D8195; url=http://www.noacks.org/cert/noackjr.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig1F5E427949D00DF67440183D" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Steven Hartland Subject: Re: asr ( 2015S ) support in 5.4 amd64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 01:16:32 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig1F5E427949D00DF67440183D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 05/31/05 18:36, Bruce Burden wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:51:57PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: >> There's no mention of in release notes but its in the source tree. >> Does anyone know the current state of play? > > Last I heard, it hadn't been 64 bit proofed, and the primary person > was swamped, and asking for help. Haven't seen anything that would > cause me to change my thinking so far. asr is not 64 bit clean and is therefore not available on amd64. It works on i386 but needs GIANT due to the driver not being locked. I tried a few times to dig in and bring asr into the 21st century, but lack of skill and the horrific mess of the driver conspire against me. Scott Long worked on it a fair bit over the last year or so, but most of what he did was just code cleanup. The driver is less evil now, but evil nonetheless. We need to fix asr or port i2o from NetBSD. Either requires a non-trivial level of skill and effort. -- Jonathan Noack | noackjr@alumni.rice.edu | OpenPGP: 0x991D8195 --------------enig1F5E427949D00DF67440183D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCnQxrUFz01pkdgZURArQwAJ9Mj5l2XBPZA15bliWfR+nMjFcflQCfaMna nFHoFwFcntpoP5ANpDsw7e0= =pqll -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig1F5E427949D00DF67440183D--