Date: Sat, 24 Dec 1994 16:00:34 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: ttymalloc()? Message-ID: <199412250000.QAA01643@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 24 Dec 94 22:37:47 %2B0100." <199412242137.WAA19443@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
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>Is anybody going to re-implement this? > >My question is since i'm finalizing the patches for pcvt to run on >FreeBSD 2.0. My current policy is to enable ttymalloc() for >FreeBSD >= 1.1.5 but not 2.0. But this would require it to be sure >it will be in the next official release. If this is not sure, i'd >go for ``FreeBSD >= 1.1.5 && FreeBSD < 2.0'' with the option to >expand this by ``|| FreeBSD > 2.foobar'' in future. The only reason that dynamic allocation of tty structs isn't in 2.0 is because I had a zillion things to keep straight in my head when I did the initial 2.0 kernel port from the 4.4-lite sources, and implementing this at the time was too much trouble. It was already difficult to write & debug tty_subr.c without a functioning kernel. It was my intention to re-implement this at some later time, but other things have been more important. >The related question is: would it be similiar to FreeBSD 1.1.5, or >similiar to NetBSD? >:-) I recall Guido was the one to put this support in FreeBSD, so I suppose it is his decision on how it should be done for 1.1.5. -DG
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