From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jul 16 11:07:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA26834 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (Ilsa.StevesCafe.com [205.168.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA26538 for ; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:02:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Ilsa.StevesCafe.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA09161; Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:38:11 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707161738.LAA09161@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 From: Steve Passe To: Peter Wemm cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:08:00 +0800." <199707161108.TAA15825@spinner.dialix.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 11:38:11 -0600 Sender: owner-smp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter, > I believe, that we don't support the DMA chaining interrupt in any way, > shape or form at present. I would not think it would be a big loss. I > think you are correct, it's only used for motherboard driven DMA. > Busmastering DMA (any EISA card worth using would do this anyway) is > unrelated to that. I vote for declaring it stillborn, especially as EISA > is apparently not on the "cool hardware of the day" list. this appears to be the consensus, its dead! (but as I mentioned earlier, if we ever go to exclusive use of the APIC timers, it could rise from the grave!) -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD