Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 15:41:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: <thomas.pornin@ens.fr>, <FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>, <alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: alpha/27930: NE2000 not supported on FreeBSD Alpha 4.x; fix included Message-ID: <20010607154001.E4693-100000@wonky.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20010608003518.B8358@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d>
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I have nothing wrong with kvtop or pmap_extract. I don't care one way or the other. But I do want to see drivers using the dmabus routines. Sometime this year we'll turn off the hack in alpha that allows PCI drivers to continue to work on systems with < 2GB of memory. On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake Matthew Jacob (mjacob@feral.com): > > > No- I'm afraid this won't be the right answer. kvtop will go away- what has > > to happen is that ed needs to be dmabus-ified. > > I have a one-year-old patch for that on > http://people.freebsd.org/~alex/remove-kvtop.diff > (it probably won't apply any more). > > It removes all occurrencies of kvtop() and replaces it with the more > correct pmap_extract(). > > Given this, the ed driver compiles again on -alpha as it did when I > initially bus_spacifed the ed driver (that was the reason why I did > it: One of my alphas only had an NE2000 NIC). > > Is there a fix in -CURRENT? I don't think so (sys/dev/ed/* still use > kvtop()). > > Maybe one can rework the above patch, PLEASE? > (Or at least tell me what's wrong, so _I_ can do it). > > Alex > -- > cat: /home/alex/.sig: No such file or directory > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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