From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 21 21:15:36 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0789516A420; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:15:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mv.twc.weather.com (mv.twc.weather.com [65.212.71.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22B7243D7E; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:15:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.50.40.201] (Not Verified[65.202.103.25]) by mv.twc.weather.com with NetIQ MailMarshal (v6, 0, 3, 8) id ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:29:44 -0400 From: John Baldwin To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:13:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507211713.54772.jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org Subject: PATCH to make de(4) MPSAFE X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 21:15:36 -0000 I've hacked on the de(4) driver to make it run without Giant. It's been working fine for over a day now on my ds20 and I wanted to submit the patch for wider testing. Note that it doesn't handle all the edge cases on multiport cards however. Patch is at http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/de_mpsafe.patch Please test, thanks! -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org