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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 1997 17:17:38 +1100 (EDT)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bus/Processor specific I/O methods - was Re: Beginning SPARC port
Message-ID:  <199712150618.WAA25116@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <19971214183034.27523@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> from "John-Mark Gurney" at Dec 14, 97 06:30:34 pm

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In some mail from John-Mark Gurney, sie said:
> 
> actually, after reading the man pages... I found the BEST way to describe
> bus.h... it's just a subset of what I want to do...  bus.h only describes
> how to interact with mem/io ranges by the cpu...  my bus/device code
> does a lot more than that...  it keeps keeps track of ALL bus resources..
> 
> my bus/device code is best described as a complete device management
> system than a bus interface mechanism...
> 
> I have larger plans for my code than just managing hardware devices...
> the code will be VERY simply to expand it to support such things as
> using to keep track of char/block devices, and other things... with a
> common interface.. it will be VERY easy to create something like the
> win95's list of system devices that is VERY complete...

Hmmm, here's a question for you...
How long before FreeBSD has an 10-MB kernel at boot-time, just like NT ?
(Well, minus whatever bloat there is for the GUI)

Darren



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