From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 17 02:41:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA12105 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 02:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from parkplace.cet.co.jp (parkplace.cet.co.jp [202.32.64.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA12092 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 02:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michaelh@cet.co.jp) Received: from localhost (michaelh@localhost) by parkplace.cet.co.jp (8.8.8/CET-v2.2) with SMTP id JAA04699; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:40:34 GMT Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:40:34 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock To: Doug Rabson cc: Chris Csanady , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft manpages available for review In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Doug Rabson wrote: > There are broad similarities between John-Mark's design and mine and I > have corresponded with him in the past on the subject. This system was > actually designed and mostly implemented about a year ago, long before I > was away of John-Marks ideas. > > Now that I have added a flexible system for driver method registration > (inspired by the vnode interface system), I believe that I have a robust > framework which will adapt to most if not all of the different types of > bus in common use. In addition, the core code is mature and well tested, > with a high degree of data-hiding to improve forwards compatibility for > binary driver distributions. How hard do you think it will be to port the Wildboar CardBus stuff over to this design? A lot of Japanese institutions own BSDI source licenses so there's been a lot of work done in making it run on both NetBSD and BSDI. It would be nice to leverage of this effort. Regards, Mike Hancock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message