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Date:      Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RE: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha autoconf.c interrupt.c ipl_f
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010051700290.62475-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.001005164426.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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I'm still struggling to get back to be able to help yet- I lost all of my 5.0
alpha -current systems during the office move (two dead disk drives, if you
can believe that!)- but please check in as much as you can and that gives us
all something to work from to fix things- we *do* expect this all to be
(barely) working for a while- that's part of the SMP effort.

-matt


On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> 
> On 05-Oct-00 John Baldwin wrote:
> > jhb         2000/10/05 16:09:58 PDT
> > 
> >   Log:
> >   - Heavyweight interrupt threads on the alpha for device I/O interrupts.
> >   - Make softinterrupts (SWI's) almost completely MI, and divorce them
> >     completely from the x86 hardware interrupt code.
> >     - The ihandlers array is now gone.  Instead, there is a MI shandlers
> > array
> >       that just contains SWI handlers.
> >     - Most of the former machine/ipl.h files have moved to a new sys/ipl.h.
> >   - Stub out all the spl*() functions on all architectures.
> 
> The mcpcia and dwlpx PCI chipsets are not confirmed to work.  It does
> work ok on the Miata here that I have to test on though.  There is still
> some bogusness in the alpha interrupt code where it grabs Giant when it
> probably shouldn't be.  Also, at least one person on the -alpha list
> has reported that his SCSI bus isn't probing succesfully with this, but
> I figure the chances of getting this fixed are increased with the code
> under more eyes.  Also, having this in the tree should make keeping the
> ia64 tree in sync easier as well as the ia64 port borrows heavily from
> the alpha port atm.
> 
> -- 
> 
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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