On Monday 16 January 2012 01:21:19 Yuri wrote: > On 01/15/2012 15:34, Dieter BSD wrote: > > Some drivers do things like DELAY(big number) while interrupts are turned > > off. Very bad. Look through the source, maybe you can find it. > > > > We REALLY need a way to service one device without shutting off > > interrupts from other devices. > > NVidia driver is closed source and ships with many binaries. But code > immediately interacting with kernel is open and it does call DELAY and > also tsleep(9) > > Yuri
Hi, I've noticed that the propritary Nvidia drivers can freeze when probing a second monitor for some seconds. It indicates that all code is directly executed from interrupt context, instead of postponed to a task queue, where pause() can be used. --HPS _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
