Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 18:20:29 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, root@ns2.redline.ru Subject: Re: please update /dev/MAKEDEV Message-ID: <199504300820.SAA19173@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I think it's reasonable, since you won't want to use [m]any of those >devices under Mach (at least not as much as you'll want your X server >to work! :-). Don't forget that the LITES people take a slightly >different view of what it means to "Run FreeBSD." What happens to FreeBSD device numbers under LITES? If LITES expects to access the standard devices using the standard numbers then it must use device numbers above all the standard device numbers for its own devices. This is hard to do when the last BSD device number is a rapidly increasing function of time :-). Bruce
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