assumption about a device's maxphys

2012-10-09 Thread Chuck Silvers
hi thor, your tls-maxphys branch appears to assume that a given device's maxphys is constant, but consider the case of a software "device" like a logical volume from LVM. one very nice feature of a volume manager that I used to work with (veritas vxvm) is that it can migrate a volume to new stor

Re: call for testing: completing the device/softc split

2012-10-09 Thread Izumi Tsutsui
chs@ wrote: > I put together a patch to complete the device/softc split > for the remaining drivers in the tree. the patch is at: > http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/chs/diff.devsoftc.8 >> +++ sys/arch/amiga/amiga/autoconf.c 9 Oct 2012 02:53:15 - >> @@ -156,34 +156,52 @@ matchname(co

call for testing: completing the device/softc split

2012-10-09 Thread Chuck Silvers
hi folks, I put together a patch to complete the device/softc split for the remaining drivers in the tree. the patch is at: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/chs/diff.devsoftc.8 I've tested it with a fair number of platforms and devices, but there's a bunch of stuff that I can't test. if pe