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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:19:50 +0100
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/mfi mfi.c mfi_ioctl.h mfireg.h
Message-ID:  <20061215151950.8luf3k2rwg480k00@webmail.leidinger.net>
In-Reply-To: <200612141829.kBEIT8dW073223@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200612141829.kBEIT8dW073223@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Quoting Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 14 Dec 2006  
18:29:08 +0000 (UTC)):

> ambrisko    2006-12-14 18:29:08 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:
>     sys/dev/mfi          mfi.c mfi_ioctl.h mfireg.h
>   Log:

>   This is some clean-up and enables RAID firmware to updated via Dell's
>   tool.  Note Dell's tool requires the updates to the Linux emulator
>   that has been done in -current with TLS etc.

... and as such is not available to amd64 users because of missing TLS  
(and more). Patches in P4, reviews welcome.

It is also not enabled by default on i386. One showstopper reason are  
some bugs in the futex code. Help appreciated (see  
http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/linux-kernel and emulation@ for more).

Bye,
Alexander.

-- 
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A:	Lawn Boy.

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