Re: Future of the ie(4) driver

On 7/5/07, Thierry Herbelot <thierry_at_herbelot.com> wrote:
> Le Thursday 05 July 2007, John Baldwin a écrit :
> > The ie(4) driver in 7.x has several issues.  First of all, it has several
> > compiler warnings that haven't been successfully fixed in several years and
> > are currently just ignored.  More importantly, it hasn't been updated to
> > use more modern FreeBSD APIs like bus_space (still uses inb/outb) and SMPng
> > locking.  If someone is using this driver and is willing to test fixes for
> > it, then it can be updated.  If there isn't anyone who is using this driver
> > and willing to test fixes, then it will be removed from the tree at some
> > point in the future (say a month or two).
>
> Hello,
>
> I am the proud owner of one ie(4) board.
>
> just now, the machine using it is running -Stable, but I can easily arrange
> for dual booting with -Current.
>

An outstanding issue for it is that the NET_GIANT infrastructure is
going away in 7.0, so if_ie will also need to be locked in order to
remain.

           -Kip