Re: psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

2005-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 08:05:08PM -0700, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
 Hello Family,
 
 Well, now I just had one more question about the FreeBSD-5.4/amd64
 system I'm trying to get the mouse working on. I booted in verbose
 mode and spotted the following in dmesg:
 
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- dmesg|grep psm0
 
 psm0: current command byte:0047
 psm0: PS/2 Mouse flags 0x2000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
 psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
 psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4-00, 5 buttons
 psm0: config:2000, flags:0008, packet size:4
 psm0: syncmask:08, syncbits:00
 
 
 
 Does anyone have any idea what the GIANT-LOCKED comment means?

Essentially, the driver cannot take advantage of multiple CPUs.  See
the archives for further discussion.

Kris



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psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

2005-06-25 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family,

Well, now I just had one more question about the FreeBSD-5.4/amd64
system I'm trying to get the mouse working on. I booted in verbose
mode and spotted the following in dmesg:


[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]- dmesg|grep psm0

psm0: current command byte:0047
psm0: PS/2 Mouse flags 0x2000 irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4-00, 5 buttons
psm0: config:2000, flags:0008, packet size:4
psm0: syncmask:08, syncbits:00



Does anyone have any idea what the GIANT-LOCKED comment means?

Thanks again everyone.

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