From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 20 22:10:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (grouter.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD2E137B479; Mon, 20 Nov 2000 22:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAL6AiJ23116; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:10:45 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <200011210610.eAL6AiJ23116@gratis.grondar.za> To: John Baldwin Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "monotonic" counter commit candidate. Reviews, please. References: In-Reply-To: ; from John Baldwin "Mon, 20 Nov 2000 14:26:40 PST." Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 08:10:40 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Both machine/cpufunc.h and machine/clock.h were shot down with valid reasons. machine/systm.h also (by bde). > One could argue that this provides an MI api that is more or less a library > function. A similar function that wasn't so MD specific would be implemented > in libkern. libkern's prototypes are in sys/systm.h. The natural name for a > MD portion of sys/systm.h is machine/systm.h. There is already tons of > precedent for this. This has already been discussed to death. Its now in machine/cpu.h M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message