tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp (Izumi Tsutsui) writes:

>- many drivers lack necessary bus_dmamap_sync(9) calls,
>  which are mostly no-op on i386 or macppc
>  (IIRC there was a report ti(4) didn't work on sparc64)
>- some drivers are not well-tested on big endian machines
>  (some VLAN code might be still problematic for example),
>  or also could have LE64BE bugs on sparc64
>- sparc64 (or some other ports) has more assertions in MD backend
>  and some drivers could have bugs which are not caught on i386
>- some drivers might have invalid I/O accesses which only
>  work in __NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT case

sounds like pretty good arguments for putting these drivers
into every GENERIC configuration. Otherwise these problems
will never get addressed.


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