From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 21:19:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B1316A421 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:19:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from smtp4-g19.free.fr (smtp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D18113C4B7 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 21:19:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29A026EFB7; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:19:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: from diversion.herbelot.nom (diversion.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.6]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l65LJNFi007482; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:19:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:19:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <200707051428.22766.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200707051428.22766.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707052319.16303.thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Future of the ie(4) driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: thierry@herbelot.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 21:19:27 -0000 Le Thursday 05 July 2007, John Baldwin a écrit : > The ie(4) driver in 7.x has several issues. First of all, it has several > compiler warnings that haven't been successfully fixed in several years and > are currently just ignored. More importantly, it hasn't been updated to > use more modern FreeBSD APIs like bus_space (still uses inb/outb) and SMPng > locking. If someone is using this driver and is willing to test fixes for > it, then it can be updated. If there isn't anyone who is using this driver > and willing to test fixes, then it will be removed from the tree at some > point in the future (say a month or two). Hello, I am the proud owner of one ie(4) board. just now, the machine using it is running -Stable, but I can easily arrange for dual booting with -Current. TfH