On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:28:56PM +0300, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I'm in a process of upgrading our FreeBSD 5.3 servers to 5.4. Two done, > one to go. I noticed that the Giant lock is no longer mentioned in dmesg > during boot. With FreeBSD 5.3, several devices (for example: ips, ahc, > atkbd) had a note similar to this in dmesg: > > ips0: <IBM ServeRAID Adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem > 0xfeb00000-0xfebfffff irq 9 at device 1.0 on pci0 > ips0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > > With FreeBSD 5.4, the [GIANT-LOCKED] message no longer appears. > > Does that mean that Giant lock has been removed from all those drivers, > or is the message simply not printed?
Do you still see it on some other drivers? If so, the former. Kris
pgpotk6bqopDW.pgp
Description: PGP signature