Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 22:21:40 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: green@FreeBSD.org Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardc Makefile dumpcisfile.c pccardc.8 pccardc.c src/usr.sbin/pccard/pccardd readcis.c readcis.h Message-ID: <20030225.222140.22550727.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <200302260511.h1Q5Bbxw012540@green.bikeshed.org> References: <20030225.215808.87764783.imp@bsdimp.com> <200302260511.h1Q5Bbxw012540@green.bikeshed.org>
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"Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: That sounds like a cool plan :-) The Linux utilities are crap; they're
: intensely machine-dependent. For example, the CIS-to-text utility uses
: special calls to the kernel to have it parse the CIS and give it back in a
: different format, doing most of the work.
I've noticed that as well :-)...
: I haven't looked at the compiler,
: but I don't think it would be hard at all to do.
Yes. The hard part is getting all the structures right, keeping it up
to date, etc. The linux one is kind of strange, so I'm not sure what
the right thing to do is...
: Come to think of it, I bet
: we could reuse Iwasaki-san's amldb code, and teach it to use CIS instead of
: DSDT.
Hey, I'd forogtten about that... I'll have to look at it.
Warner
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