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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 09:01:21 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: concurrent calls to device drivers
Message-ID:  <19970423090121.MR12299@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199704230227.LAA18664@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Apr 23, 1997 11:57:14 %2B0930
References:  <19970422214531.BX39690@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199704230227.LAA18664@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > Unless the interrupt service can modify sc_busy, you don't need to
> > protect it.
> 
> I was thinking explicitly about the speaker driver when I wrote this; ...

Ok, if you wanna make the speaker driver asynch, then you need it.

> Do we have sample implementations of these primitives?  Last I heard the
> SMP kernel wasn't doing kernel reentrancy yet, so I guess it's not vital
> yet...

Don't ask me about SMP. :)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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