From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 6 20:13:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDA716A420 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:13:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [204.156.12.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F2243D48 for ; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 20:13:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4125246B7D; Sat, 6 Aug 2005 16:13:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 21:16:05 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "J. T. Farmer" In-Reply-To: <42F4AFC0.8010907@goldsword.com> Message-ID: <20050806211309.S11054@fledge.watson.org> References: <20050806035132.BB14A5D07@ptavv.es.net> <42F4AFC0.8010907@goldsword.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 20:13:16 -0000 On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, J. T. Farmer wrote: > Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> I would suggest that it would have been better to post to current as >> 6.0 is not yet stable and most of the people who deal with problems are >> much more likely to see problems reported there. > > Ok, so I'm a bit confused. The answer given for the the DMA_WRITE and > DMA_READ errors experienced under 5.4 with PATA and SATA is to try 6.0. > > If 6.0 is not considered Stable, what are we supposed to do if we want > to run Stable? Three options: (1) There are patches that bring most of the 6.0 ATA changes back to 5.x, but are not yet ready to commit. You can apply these patches, although they don't currently contain all the fixes that are present in the 6.x version (at least, so Soren told me a few days ago when I asked about a possible merge schedule). (2) 6.x will be -STABLE in the near future, but not before the release of 6.0 is out. (3) The patches will likely be merged to 5.x at some point, especially once they've gained more exposure through the release of 6.0. Robert N M Watson