From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 5 23:08:01 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C03F16A400 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:08:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23C3F13C448 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:08:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kip.macy@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o4so671387uge for ; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:08:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MGHXcnbjeQW//Dy2oCkn5ASmrNSVml0kD8Vz/HitCndN6GvKGpJJxXhABumR/gzl2LhnYxF8GEVoDwP+AxbIiBKKQzjmw85ld8fyhRdAwDI5JDgNE0U3hI3Z5hxULFA3zO9v/Bi6wE9uOQsAwhhbLD1BijH6lRA7NuVgI4xgTUw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=D9PwJaIiItWJU7fBcKDZFFN4BOaraIvTAK0R2wd4r3oqjBVPT0nAqcGERCnfPCbZRn1gqBgupkiQu+fWrSXDnY6qbdMvPsmqFJnYTp+MS99LHuo0Z+zFWhvOCirbfVQsjgZwUis+Ui45e/G7e9YQvsrBjH0JST5/8WzNmEcfxQI= Received: by 10.78.159.7 with SMTP id h7mr34058hue.1183676879786; Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.162.18 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:07:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 16:07:59 -0700 From: "Kip Macy" To: thierry@herbelot.com In-Reply-To: <200707052319.16303.thierry@herbelot.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200707051428.22766.jhb@freebsd.org> <200707052319.16303.thierry@herbelot.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of the ie(4) driver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2007 23:08:01 -0000 On 7/5/07, Thierry Herbelot 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