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Date:      Wed, 21 Jul 2004 22:11:33 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mark Murray <markm@freebsd.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] Big cleanup job on memory device 
Message-ID:  <92052.1090440693@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jul 2004 20:52:55 BST." <200407211952.i6LJquJ3010111@grimreaper.grondar.org> 

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In message <200407211952.i6LJquJ3010111@grimreaper.grondar.org>, Mark Murray wr
ites:
>Hey all
>
>Please have a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~markm/mem.diff
>
>It is a big cleanup of sys/${ARCH}/${ARCH}/mem.c, and it turns
>multiple copies of MD code into MI code with the MD bits broken
>out. Lots of garbage is retired.
>
>It also turns the memory and io devices into loadable modules,
>but going this route is probably for the braver folks amongst us.
>
>I wrote 99% of this code more than a year ago, and over time, its
>been tested on i386, alpha and sparc64.

This looks like a good thing to me.

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