Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 13:30:50 -0500 (EST) From: dyson@iquest.net To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd@atipa.com, cgull@smoke.marlboro.vt.us, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: When will busmastering be committed? Message-ID: <19980312183051.10206.qmail@iquest7.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199803120733.IAA21265@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at Mar 12, 98 08:33:45 am
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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. > I have to agree. John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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