Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 08:33:45 +0100 (MET) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: freebsd@atipa.com, cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When will busmastering be committed? Message-ID: <199803120733.IAA21265@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199803120353.TAA25717@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Mar 11, 98 07:53:09 pm"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> >
> > More precisely, IDE DMA busmastering for certain chipsets (PIIX-based, et
> > al). I believe the code was by a Mr Hood. (John Hood?)
>
> Ah. I don't think John is a regular -stable reader, nor are Soren nor
> John Dyson, the comitters most serious about the code.
>
> Last I recall, there were some concerns about a number of issues still
> outstanding. I've copied John and Soren on this; let's see what they
> have to say on the matter.
Hmm, there are no immediate plans to get the DMA stuff backported to
2.2.X, there are differences between -current and stable that makes
this a nontrivial task. Besides I've just found out that we have some
nasty problems in there that we DONT want to get into -stable.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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