From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 13 9: 8:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EFAA37B479 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:08:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA30226; Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:08:17 -0800 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 09:08:15 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: wkb@freebie.demon.nl, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Test success for AS2100 and AS1000A In-Reply-To: <14864.7979.197947.289579@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Matthew Jacob writes: > > of stuff- and we have to begin to insist that for FreeBSD-alpha that drivers > > must use busdma (the alpha_dma_XXX value will be going away- or maybe we'll > > keep an option). We're just fooling ourselves by keeping it around. > > Do _any_ network drivers use busdma? NetBSD version of if_de :-)..... Possibly not. It's getting time for them to do so. I've had it on my list for a while to do if_wx as a sample for Bill Paul and others to think about. Others have made assertions that we should 'just use bounce buffers instead of fixing drivers'. That doesn't work because you still have a shared resource to tell unaware drivers. This has to get fixed sooner or later anyway. For crying out loud, even Linux has figured this out. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message