From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 00:06:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19968 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:06:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (d182-89.uoregon.edu [128.223.182.89]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA19963 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:06:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA04264; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:06:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19980304000632.51752@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 00:06:32 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Warner Losh , Brian Handy , current@FreeBSD.ORG, "John S.Dyson" Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? References: <199803040529.WAA03824@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Tue, Mar 03, 1998 at 10:30:01PM -0800 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Simon Shapiro scribbled this message on Mar 3: [...] > I retire. Warner has brought this list of ideas to the point of > perfection. Now we need to scrap it and start over, just like we do to > good, working pieces of the kernel... > > Oh, we need a special reward for this; The most re-written portion of the > system. that would have to be syscons.c closely followed by sio.c... (256 revs to syscons and 199 revs to sio.c)... p.s. Talking about sio, I have some mods that I'm going to be testing that actually make use of the AST/4 register, and should eliminate the COM_MULTIPORT option as it will only test the ports that are under that specific master... (now I just wish that my University would let me put diskless booting options in their bootp/dhcp server so I can boot this one machine diskless :(, guess I'm going to have to use PicoBSD)... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message