Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:07:59 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" <kip.macy@gmail.com> To: thierry@herbelot.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of the ie(4) driver Message-ID: <b1fa29170707051607s4c6c6316n28f4cb809e44281@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200707052319.16303.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <200707051428.22766.jhb@freebsd.org> <200707052319.16303.thierry@herbelot.com>
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On 7/5/07, Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> wrote:
> Le Thursday 05 July 2007, John Baldwin a =E9crit :
> > The ie(4) driver in 7.x has several issues. First of all, it has sever=
al
> > compiler warnings that haven't been successfully fixed in several years=
and
> > are currently just ignored. More importantly, it hasn't been updated t=
o
> > use more modern FreeBSD APIs like bus_space (still uses inb/outb) and S=
MPng
> > 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 dr=
iver
> > and willing to test fixes, then it will be removed from the tree at som=
e
> > 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 arran=
ge
> for dual booting with -Current.
>
An outstanding issue for it is that the NET_GIANT infrastructure is
going away in 7.0, so if_ie will also need to be locked in order to
remain.
-Kip
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