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Date:      Mon, 05 Jul 1999 17:16:59 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: alpha kernel build failure (w/patch) 
Message-ID:  <199907052316.RAA59400@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jul 1999 13:12:28 CDT." <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907051300170.19262-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> 
References:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907051300170.19262-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>  

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In message <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907051300170.19262-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> Steve Price writes:
: I wondered that as well.  For both the i386 and alpha port
: the definitions end up in /usr/include/machine/bus.h and
: stripping off the arch-specific prefix shows that their value
: is the same.

Because the bus tag isn't guarnateed to be a constant.  On some
machines it matters what kind of bus you are on as to what you use.

Warner


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