From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Jan 8 16:02:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA20937 for alpha-outgoing; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:02:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) 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 QAA20923 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:02:34 -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 PAA23422; Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:59:23 -0800 (PST) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 15:59:23 -0800 (PST) From: Curt Sampson To: John Birrell cc: gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, jim.king@mail.sstar.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-Reply-To: <199801062115.IAA09964@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, John Birrell wrote: > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > their bus_space code without modifications (if it goes well)... but > > the rest of their bus code is to limiting... > > Have you tried getting the NetBSD bus-code designers to comment on > this statement? If you send mail to cgd@netbsd.org saying.... A better thing to do would be to join the tech-kern@netbsd.org mailing list (majordomo@netbsd.org to subscribe) and discuss it there. As far as this actually happening on the FreeBSD side, I'd love to see a lot of this stuff adopted into FreeBSD, since we rely on a couple of FreeBSD folks for some of our device drivers. However, last time I chatted with David Greenman (at ISPCon in SF last August) he indicated to me that he felt that inb() and outb() were just fine for device drivers, and he saw no need for any of the bus_space stuff in NetBSD. 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.