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Date:      Wed, 17 Dec 1997 17:30:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Gary Palmer <gjp@erols.net>, itojun@itojun.org, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Beginning SPARC port 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96.971217172930.14664Z-100000@cynic.portal.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199712141900.MAA04338@harmony.village.org>

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On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Warner Losh wrote:

> For a long time Linux has used outb/inb (and maybe still does) for
> accessing I/O space.

Yup. And for a long time Linux has had eleven different drivers
for the Lance Ethernet chip, depending on which combination of
machine and bus you're using. (NetBSD has one for all machines,
with a handful of small bus-dependent front ends for the driver.)

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.




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