Future of the ie(4) driver

[Thierry Herbelot]

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.

	TfH