busdma/ata & sysinstall [Was: Re: 6.0-RELEASE/AMD64 Ram Capacity?]

[Igor Mozolevsky]

I've spent a considerable amount of time looking through ata/busdma  
drivers, they need a lot of tidying up, lack of comments doesn't help  
either... i'd like to grab the handle on busdma & ata projects, with  
the aim of having them in production state for  6.5-STABLE.

I was also looking at systinstall, which requires a major rework, and  
we have some ideas for that too, I'd say also aim for 6.5. I also am  
going to talk to Scott L. about it in the near future.

If you have any ideas/suggestions for the above drop me an email.

Cheers,
Igor :-)

On 13 Mar 2006, at 22:38, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Douglas K. Rand wrote this message on Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 14:11  
> -0600:
>> Nathan> I seem to recall various threads relating to problems with
>> Nathan> machines running at or above 4GB ram... what if any issues
>> Nathan> still exist?
>>
>> Kris> Some specific drivers do not work on such systems.  FreeBSD
>> Kris> itself has no problems.
>>
>> Is there a means of telling (or even better, a list) which drivers
>> handle (or those that don't) more than 4 GB of RAM?
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/busdma/
>
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