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Today is a big day, for me, for Ed Schouten and for FreeBSD (And it’s consumers ofcourse). Why? Ed Schouten today integrated his MultiProcessorSafe (MPSAFE) implementation of the TTY Layer for FreeBSD. From the beginning that I heared about the project, Ed and I had been in contact, both working at the same company (Snow B.V.), we flew to Canada together (Facilitated and sponsored by Snow B.V.), visited eachother, been in contact for ages (or at least it feels like ages, which is a positive point in this case). Ed also gratuated in the meantime by working on this TTY layer. So a lot of good things had been evolved because of this!
For FreeBSD this means that finally the TTY layer is GIANT-less. One more big obstacle removed to entirely getting rid of the GIANT lock ;-), as Poul-Henning Kamp mentioned at some point: This is one of the latest chapters that needed rewriting (since a long time as far as I know).
So I am really happy about this. Good Work Ed!!!