But I found some spl levels swap relative ordering. For instance, on amd64
   & i386, splipi > splhigh. On alpha and vax, though, splhigh < splipi. That
   worries me, as if we ever write MI code that ends up depending on being
   able to pass IPIs around, it'll fail on alpha & vax. And since splipl is 
   an MD definition (macppc and sparc don't seem to have it), MI code would 
   not directly see the problem. In fact, on vax, splipi < most other spl 
   levels.

splipi() is MD, thus it doesn't matter what it's definition is.  i am
not sure we will ever have MI splipi() required functionality.... this
seems like a non-problem.
   
   I'm really not sure what to do about this, but it'll be real hard to move 
   to a fine-grained spin locking on all MP architectures if MI code doesn't 
   have one hierarchy to code to.

since all levels/drivers need to be fixed, fixing one platforms highest
level first is not detrimental to other platforms.  i'm not sure that this
is a real problem?  eg, if sparc/sparc64 have to lag because of splaudio
vs. splsched, they will just have to keep the current biglock.

perhaps i'm missing something?


.mrg.