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Date:      Fri, 23 Jun 2000 10:55:15 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: irunning, width in bits.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006231053080.1575-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20000622140107.E845@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>

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> I think, however, that Nick's suggestion is a thing we should follow
> up on--*after* we have got the simple case working.  Once we have the
> ability to block in interrupt context, I'm sure we'll find lots of
> applications for our new-found freedom, some of them good.  But first
> we need to understand the environment.

For one we can tell everyone that interrupts can be shared at a very low
cost (which means that people can stop moving around hardware to get rid
of shared interrupts) Just bung in your PCI cards, make sure all the ISA
stuff sits on its own and off you go.

Nick

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n_hibma@freebsd.org                                          USB project
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