From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 17 9:22:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E2137B401; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from phk.freebsd.dk (phk.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB3D243FA3; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:22:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by phk.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1HHMD6E059630; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:22:13 GMT (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1HHMAOx063120; Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:22:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: des@ofug.org, nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, peter@wemm.org, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The cbus driver for pc98 From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:18:37 MST." <20030217.101837.40575213.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:22:10 +0100 Message-ID: <63119.1045502530@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20030217.101837.40575213.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >: Takahashi Yoshihiro writes: >: > I have had some questions like "Does PC98 have ISA bus?" or "Why PC98 >: > uses ISA driver?". To clear these questions and problems, I think >: > that adding separated cbus driver is better way. >: >: So you're duplicating a large amount of existing, working code just so >: you can avoid answering questions from confused users? Or are there >: any actual technical advantages to having a separate cbus driver? > >That's a little too harsh. I actually think that it would be an improvement over the current copy-the-isa-file-and-add-#ifdef-PC98-making-diffs-hard-to-read approach. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message