Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 15:20:06 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@cs.hut.fi> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Porting cyclades driver; sigh Message-ID: <29546.789520806@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 20:44:24 %2B0200." <199501071844.UAA06214@smile.clinet.fi>
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> NetBSD has got ttymalloc & ttyfree; added into tty.[ch]. Don't know if > they are correct but hope so. I think someone here wanted to add this, but it was also supposed to be very simple! > i386/conf.c is is pretty different; implemented the necessary fancy macros > NetBSD has for exploding cdevsw entries and declarations. Leave rest to > someone else; this should be merged. I think we're actually hoping that cdevsw will go AWAY! The fancy macros are a nice stop-gap measure, but what we really need is a devfs that renders bdevsw and cdevsw entirely obsolete, and this is being worked on now. This is probably why nobody has bothered to bring the fancy macros in. > Can't you guys settle at least for the driver interfaces, if not bicycles? > :-/ It's sad, but we actually need to start talking more, first! :-) > I wouldn't mind someone shipping me a major number for cy driver, just in > case I happen to get it working before I get pissed off and install > linux... Ah, don't do that! :-) Your major number is 48. Jordan
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