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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 2002 12:18:34 -0800
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
Cc:        Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: PERFORCE change 21643 for review
Message-ID:  <20021128201834.GA1060@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021128144127.F4948@locore.ca>
References:  <200211281908.gASJ8pFc092675@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021128144127.F4948@locore.ca>

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:41:27PM -0500, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> Apparently, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:08:51AM -0800,
> 	Marcel Moolenaar said words to the effect of;
> 
> > http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=21643
> > 
> > Change 21643 by marcel@marcel_nfs on 2002/11/28 11:08:12
> > 
> > 	Conditionally compile-out I/O port addresses and memory addresses
> > 	in structs. Use tags and handles instead (as much as possible).
> > 	Not the final state, but compilable and useable.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like we'll have to do a lot of the same stuff to get syscons to
> work on sparc64.  It would be cool if you could take this into account
> when adding ifdefs not to make it so ia64 specific.

If there's agreement/consensus that this code is (potentially) useful
then yes. I'm mostly working with the assumption that it will not be
used in the end and I'm allowing myself to take all sorts of shortcuts.

If we do want to proceed in this direction, then it's probably a good
idea to get more people involved. I'm in no way a vga(4), fb(4) or
syscons(4) wizard and I don't intend to take this on by myself: it's
just too hairy...

As a start: I think we should minimize conditional compilation based
on architecture. I'd rather we introduce FB_NEWBUS as an option and
use that. Thoughts?

Secondly: In vga_vid_config we need to actually probe for a VGA device.
Can I assume that for sparc64 the legacy memory and I/O exists as well?

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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