>    > They're not, except during malloc() or free(), and changing those to
>    > use splhigh() wouldn't change that fact.
> 
>    Then if the lance driver is running for a long time at splimp(), it's
>    probably a bug that we need to fix.
> 
> As noted by Jason, on some machines it's not really possible to `fix'
> this.  I remember hearing something ages ago about Macs only having 2
> interrupt priorities...

On all the Alphas i have, interrupts come in at only one IPL...
of course, the Alpha is fast enough that i've not run into any
problems...  8-)


chris