From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 5 23:37:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E1516A421 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:37:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: from angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com (angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com [216.220.107.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6141643D58 for ; Sat, 5 Nov 2005 23:36:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com) Received: (qmail 93001 invoked by uid 2003); 5 Nov 2005 23:30:36 -0000 Received: from spork@fasttrackmonkey.com by angryfist.fasttrackmonkey.com by uid 1001 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.65. Clear:RC:1(216.220.116.154):. Processed in 0.049214 secs); 05 Nov 2005 23:30:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com) (216.220.116.154) by 0 with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 5 Nov 2005 23:30:35 -0000 Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 18:36:56 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Sprickman X-X-Sender: spork@white.nat.fasttrackmonkey.com To: hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Subject: twe and giant X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2005 23:37:04 -0000 Hello all, I was just wondering about this... I recently bumped a soon-to-be production box to 6.0 as it seems like upgrading now is easier than doing it the week after the box goes into production (it's amazing how the release engineering team knows to schedule this way...:). One thing I noticed in reviewing the boot messages is that twe is still under the giant lock: twe0: <3ware Storage Controller. Driver version 1.50.01.002> port 0x2860-0x286f mem 0xf4000000-0xf47fffff irq 17 at device 13.0 on pci0 twe0: [GIANT-LOCKED] twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE8S 1.05.00.068, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.048 I bring this up because I could have sworn that I read here or elsewhere that this driver was revamped. I also could have sworn that at some point in 5.x it was not under giant. Maybe I'm imagining things... Anyhow, does anyone know the status of this, and also is there a central repository that tracks changes like this that I can watch? Thanks, Charles