Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:19:14 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Future of the ie(4) driver Message-ID: <200707052319.16303.thierry@herbelot.com> In-Reply-To: <200707051428.22766.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200707051428.22766.jhb@freebsd.org>
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Le Thursday 05 July 2007, John Baldwin a écrit : > The ie(4) driver in 7.x has several issues. First of all, it has several > compiler warnings that haven't been successfully fixed in several years and > are currently just ignored. More importantly, it hasn't been updated to > use more modern FreeBSD APIs like bus_space (still uses inb/outb) and SMPng > 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 driver > and willing to test fixes, then it will be removed from the tree at some > 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 arrange for dual booting with -Current. TfH
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