On Sunday 28 October 2001 03:33 pm, Manuel Teira wrote:

> is making WRITE access to the card without calling LOCK_HARDWARE. Perhaps
> this funcion is called from another place were the lock takes place, I
> don't know. Anyway, when the DMA work takes shape on the Mesa layer, the
> places where the lock is needed will be less than now (I think), only when
> the DMA buffers are flushed via a BusMaster operation.
> So, I think that we must not worry about the interlock while the DMA work
> is not finished.

That would be my take on things.

> Frank, how is it going? Any news?

I have started the work.  It's taking me longer than I'd originally planned 
because I'm having to play "find another job quick" as my employer hasn't 
laid me off and I'm a month and a half past due for paychecks as of 
Wednesday.  I should have the start of something sometime this week, 
thankfully.

-- 
Frank Earl

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