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Date:      Sun, 01 Oct 2000 07:20:29 +0900
From:      Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au
Cc:        iwasaki@jp.FreeBSD.org, dfr@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC GENERIC.hints         src/sys/ia64/ia64 autoconf.c busdma_machdep.c clock.c clock_if.m elf_machdep.c exception.s genassym.c genassym.sh in_cksum.c         interrupt.c ipl_funcs.c locore.s machdep.c mem.c mp_machdep.c ...
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301154390.3489-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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> > Do you intend to implement {read|write}_eflags() for ia64 port?
> 
> It doesn't matter for acpi :-).  dev/acpi is "machine-independent",
> so it can't use machine-dependent interfaces like {read|write}_eflags().
> 
> (The <machine> directory makes it too easy to abuse machine-dependent
> interfaces.  Half of the files in <machine> should be elsewhere and
> the other half should be more careful to only export MD implementatations
> of MI interfaces.)

I see.  I thought naming of XXX_eflags is too specific to x86, so
I wondered whether it will be supported in ia64.
I'll define common interface in MI code, implement it in MD code.

Thanks


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