newbus locking?

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 25 23:41:10 UTC 2009


2009/11/25 Jason Harmening <jason.harmening at gmail.com>:
> The newbus sxlock showed up briefly back in August (yay! no more
> giant!), then went away for 8.0-RELEASE.  Will it be coming back to
> HEAD sometime soon?
> I have a driver that needs to lock the device tree and uses
> __FreeBSD_version to determine whether to use the sxlock or Giant.

Yes, I expect it to be happening very soon (I hope in maximum one month).

Attilio


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