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Date:      Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:45:32 -0700
From:      David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/matcd creativeif.h matcd.c matcd_data.h matcd_isa.c matcddrv.h options.h
Message-ID:  <20030619074532.GA79448@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <200306180838.53495.wes@softweyr.com>
References:  <m19ST6h-000MLTC@nemesis.lonestar.org> <200306180838.53495.wes@softweyr.com>

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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Wes Peters wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 June 2003 07:55 pm, Frank Durda IV wrote:
> > And of course the biggie: As inb/outb macros still work on the target
> > hardware and processor, and work as they did in the previous life of
> > this driver, so why dump success?  Why even scout around on the off
> > chance that using inb/outb is not the preferred way to do things any
> > more?
> >
> > I don't usually go looking in dark alleys to see if any have muggers.
> 
> You have verified that your interrupt twiddling and such doesn't hose SMP 
> machines, right?  You really must understand that support for modern 
> machines is much more important to FreeBSD than supporting some ancient 
> junkpile CD-ROM device.

I think with his changes, we support modern SMP machines just fine
and we support the junkpile CD-ROMs just fine, but we don't support
junkpile CD-ROMs *on* modern SMP machines all that well.  That sounds
fair enough, given that you can't even plug those CD-ROM drives into
most new machines in the first place.



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