new HDA driver and 6.2?

[Julian Elischer]

Ariff Abdullah wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:39:26 -0800
> Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
>> Will the HD driver be MFC'd before or after 6.2?
>>
> I couldn't tell yet. How about voting for this?
> 
>> Before would mean pcbsd and others could use it sooner I guess..
>>
> I would strongly suggest this type of distribution to use either my
> "lowlatency" patch, or even better, the binary modules, at least for
> now:
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/
> http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/lowlatency/ (binary modules)

that's 245k of diffs! :-)

> 
> (these need a HEADS UP as well..)

hmm but if I install pcbsd on a machine and make a releng_6 kernel
for it I can install your binary module and have access to the hda
hardware.. that would do for me..

Is there an ABI change? (Why the headsup?)

> 
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