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Date:      Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:42:55 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away 
Message-ID:  <199908212142.OAA01423@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:46:01 MDT." <199908212046.OAA48501@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <199908211951.MAA00837@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : APM is only attached to the ISA bus for crufty reasons; I'm going to 
> 
> Actually, APM is attached to NEXUS.  Why pass it kernel environment
> variables when it will likely be modified to grok whatever config
> scheme comes from newbus?

Because it's not a device, or more specifically, if it should be 
attached to anything, it should be attached to a 'bios' bus.

The kernel environment is simply a convenient way to make it work right 
now, rather than waiting for the newbus parameter stuff to arrive 
(which will likely be carried in the environment anyway).

-- 
\\  The mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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