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Date:      Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:22:54 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com>, Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject:   Re: Patch for critical_enter()/critical_exit() & interrupt assem
Message-ID:  <20020308102254.Q66287@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203051743.g25HhTa69019@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <29309.1015349408@critter.freebsd.dk> <200203051743.g25HhTa69019@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Tuesday,  5 March 2002 at  9:43:29 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> phk wrote:
>> you have a right to bully the only person who have consistently
>> chugged away at the SMPng project when practically everybody else
>> (you included) defected.
>
>     This is an extreme misrepresentation of the facts.  I stated very
>     clearly at the original Yahoo SMP summit that I would soon not be
>     available.  I did what work I could before I became unavailable, and
>     then I was, SURPRISE!  Unavailable for 2 years!  I did not abandon
>     anyone.  I wrote that code that is the basis for allowing us to remove
>     Giant from syscalls, I wrote the original idle process code including
>     all the hard assembly stuff.  I cleaned up the pre-SMPng SPL masks (cpl
>     and cml).  I did what I could in the time I had.

I've got to defend Matt here.  This happened exactly the way he says.
This in no way detracts from the work John has done, of course.

Greg
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