-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Julian Elischer wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: >> >> (Bcc to arch_at_) >> >> On Mon, 26 May 2008, Robert Watson wrote: >> >>> Just to keep track of things: >>> >>> http://wiki.freebsd.org/NONMPSAFE_DEORBIT >> >> Delayed by about six months, the merge and switch to the new USB stack >> in 8.x means that we're now fairly close to being able to pick up this >> project again. The goal remains to eliminate IFF_NEEDSGIANT, which is >> (mostly) the last piece of non-MPSAFE compatibility infrastructure in >> the network stack in -CURRENT. I removed support for non-MPSAFE >> network protocols before 7.0, and this is the support for non-MPSAFE >> network device drivers. As of the current moment in HEAD, the >> following drivers are flagged wth IFF_NEEDSGIANT: >> >> General network device drivers that still require Giant: >> >> if_ar >> if_ray >> if_sl >> if_sr > > if_sr and if_ar are really simple and could probably > be converted "trivially".. especially if > their netgraph code is used. > > however I wonder if anyone still has that hardware (they are > drivers for two sync serial cards). I still have such Digi/Arnet SYNC/570i PCI card and I used to use it for a long time with 4.x and if_ar driver without any problems. Thanks to John Hay for well written driver! > > John Hay must have had some when he wrote the driver... > >> >> Old USB network device drivers: >> >> if_axe >> if_cdce >> if_cue >> if_kue >> if_rue >> if_rum >> if_udav >> if_upgt >> if_ural >> if_urtw >> if_zyd >> >> Network device drivers intimately tangled with the old TTY code: >> >> if_cx >> if_ppp >> lf_sl >> >> A network device driver that appears to conditionally use >> IFF_NEEDSGIANT for the purposes of (sometimes) interacting with the >> old USB code: >> >> if_ndis >> >> The following schedule is proposed, assuming nothing goes horribly >> wrong with the new USB code in the next few weeks, and remaining nits >> relating to USB network and 802.11 drivers are handled: >> >> 16 February 2009 HEADS UP to lists (this e-mail) >> 01 March 2009 Disable build of all IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers in 8.x >> 01 April 2009 Remove all IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers from 8.x >> >> In the next couple of weeks, I'd like to resolve the status of (and >> eliminate) the if_ndis conditional use of IFF_NEEDSGIANT. There's >> also a chance that if_sl will get updated by Ed and myself to work >> with the new locking and TTY world orders -- the lock is easy, but the >> TTY update takes a bit of work. Perhaps someone will feel moved to do >> this for if_ppp and possibly if_cx as well. >> >> Robert N M Watson >> Computer Laboratory >> University of Cambridge >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFJmohKxJBWvpalMpkRAh44AJ4pmnYdK3XApm8FoVpWfHsqZIZF3gCdHKGZ 3V5VDG8kKg5OVkColCUu9cA= =0oAM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----Received on Tue Feb 17 2009 - 09:21:46 UTC
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