newbus locking?

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Mon Feb 8 12:49:07 UTC 2010


2010/2/8 Jason Harmening <jason.harmening at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:41:09 +0100
> Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> Is this still going to happen for 8.1? I don't mean to be a
> pest, but I'm ready to push a driver update to ports, and I'll wait if
> the newbus locking will be going in sometime in the next few weeks.

Just push the driver with the current code.
When I will check-in Giant-less newbus I will notify you and I will
make sure your port will work, ok?

Attilio


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