From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 17 17:32:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04437 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:32:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04379 for ; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:31:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjs@portal.ca) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA06382; Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:30:47 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:30:46 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: Warner Losh cc: Gary Palmer , itojun@itojun.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port In-Reply-To: <199712141900.MAA04338@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > For a long time Linux has used outb/inb (and maybe still does) for > accessing I/O space. Yup. And for a long time Linux has had eleven different drivers for the Lance Ethernet chip, depending on which combination of machine and bus you're using. (NetBSD has one for all machines, with a handful of small bus-dependent front ends for the driver.) cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite mist, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.