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From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
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Subject: Re: Panic while clustered I/O
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> Also, Justin is working on the new FreeBSD bus mgmt code.  That also might
> be a component of a "real" fix.

It requires some large changes to each bus mastering ISA device driver,
so I don't know how realistic it is to use bus dma to fix these kinds
of problems in the short term.  I don't mind adding bus dma support to
drivers I need to re-write/modify heavily  anyway (i.e. for it to work
in a CAM environment), but I'm loath to do the work twice and modify the
current SCSI drivers.

> -- 
> John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
> dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid,
> jdyson@nc.com         | and it irritates the pig.

--
Justin