Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 20:16:20 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled (was: 8.0 network stack MPsafety goals (fwd)) Message-ID: <200805241816.m4OIGKOj019387@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 24 May 2008 16:56:20 BST." <20080524165519.K9809@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 24 May 2008, Coleman Kane wrote: > > > I've created a quick table of these at the following location: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NetworkNeedsGiant > > > > Please everyone feel free to fill in the blanks. I'll try to do it as well > > as time permits. > > FWIW, I suspect fixing things like SLIP and kernel PPP are fairly trivial once > tty locking is in place -- a per-softc mutex and a bit of locking in the > obvious spots would likely do it without too much trouble. In some paths, it > might be necessary to inject data via the netisr, if that's not already being > done (probably is) to avoid input/output lock order issues. I dont know about current, but FYI SLIP works on 7.0-PRERELEASE.106 & FreeBSD-7.0-Stable.228 & 7.0BETA4 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/118636 Discard -h as a liability: It is doesnt work on various commercial cables, We should be conservative & inclusive. I havent got PLIP to work on 7. http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/hardware/laptops/#slip Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSDUnixLinux C Prog Admin SysEng Consult Munich www.berklix.com Mail just Ascii plain text. HTML & Base64 text are spam.
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