Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:45:32 -0700 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/matcd creativeif.h matcd.c matcd_data.h matcd_isa.c matcddrv.h options.h Message-ID: <20030619074532.GA79448@HAL9000.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <200306180838.53495.wes@softweyr.com> References: <m19ST6h-000MLTC@nemesis.lonestar.org> <200306180838.53495.wes@softweyr.com>
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On Wed, Jun 18, 2003, Wes Peters wrote: > On Tuesday 17 June 2003 07:55 pm, Frank Durda IV wrote: > > And of course the biggie: As inb/outb macros still work on the target > > hardware and processor, and work as they did in the previous life of > > this driver, so why dump success? Why even scout around on the off > > chance that using inb/outb is not the preferred way to do things any > > more? > > > > I don't usually go looking in dark alleys to see if any have muggers. > > You have verified that your interrupt twiddling and such doesn't hose SMP > machines, right? You really must understand that support for modern > machines is much more important to FreeBSD than supporting some ancient > junkpile CD-ROM device. I think with his changes, we support modern SMP machines just fine and we support the junkpile CD-ROMs just fine, but we don't support junkpile CD-ROMs *on* modern SMP machines all that well. That sounds fair enough, given that you can't even plug those CD-ROM drives into most new machines in the first place.
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