From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Apr 12 4:13:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moss.nibb.ac.jp (moss.nibb.ac.jp [133.48.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADE4A154D3 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 04:13:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moss.nibb.ac.jp (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA12521; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:06:32 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp) To: dfr@nlsystems.com Cc: y-nakaga@nwsl.mesh.ad.jp, mike@smith.net.au, dcs@newsguy.com, nate@mt.sri.com, faber@ISI.EDU, nsayer@quack.kfu.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? From: Tomoaki NISHIYAMA In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94b8 on Emacs 19.34 / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990412200631T.tomoaki@moss.nibb.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:06:31 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 990212(IM106) Lines: 17 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: Doug Rabson Subject: Re: Any success with CirrusLogic 6729/6730??? Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:03:44 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: dfr> This is not correct. A driver can be trivially split up into attachment dfr> points and implementations. The interface definition system can actually dfr> make this easier (IMHO of course). The mcclock driver in FreeBSD/alpha dfr> (derived from the NetBSD driver) does this. More precicely, is the split driver *dynamically* loadable? The bus independent part, mcclock.c seemes to be linked statically, putting aside whethere there is any merit to load the clock dynamically. -------- Tomoaki Nishiyama e-mail:tomoaki@biol.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message