From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 16 10:10:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA23339 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:10:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA23334 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 10:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/CJKv1.99-CAIS) with SMTP id NAA26603; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:10:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA25889; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:10:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 13:10:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Steve Passe cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. In-Reply-To: <199707160551.XAA06975@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > DESIGN DECISION: > > I am about to make a design decision that will forever-more make the use > of EISA cards that use the EISA chipset DMA circuit impossible in the SMP > kernel. I posted a rather long email about this several days ago but got ZERO > response. So I can conclude that either: > > a: everyone agrees with this decision. > OR > b: no one with such hardware read that far. > > In the future I will use this "HEADS UP" format to get a summary of such > info to the top of email. For the record, here is a repost of the > pertinant info: Steve, I don't have an EISA smp board, so I felt I didn't need to reply, but your suggestion is fine with me. Thinking about it, the only EISA boards out there would be getting a little aged, and it seems fairly safe to exclude them from smp work. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------