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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Bus/Processor specific I/O methods - was Re: Beginning SPARC port 
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From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Thats fine . 
John-Mark's work as well as other in the area of bus abstraction will
serve two purpose: 

1. pave the way for robust PnP support in FreeBSD
2. abstract bus interface for multiple platforms 


We really need to iron out the PnP issue on FreeBSD and the bus interface
for multiple platforms is a secondary benefit.

	Amancio
> In some mail from Amancio Hasty, sie said:
> > 
> > > Well, the Solaris2 kernel is 600k (/platform/sun4m/kernel/unix) for 2.5.1,
> > 
> > You mean their OS boot loader is 600k 8)
> > 
> > Last but not least I miss the part of a critical and or constructive 
> > criticism. It  almost looks like you are having a bad day 8)
> 
> Ack!  Sorry.
> 
> the kernel (/kernel/genunix) is 880k.  /kernel is around 9M in size and
> is just comprimsed of the kernel + modules.
> 
> so around 14 - 15M of modules, all up.
> 
> my reference to a 10M kernel wasn't how big /kernel would be, but how
> big the kernel is when running in multiuser mode (when you've got all
> your drivers and everything else loaded and have allocated memory to
> store information about anything which might be relevant).
>