From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 25 8:39: 1 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D362A37B401; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:39:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E9643E6E; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 08:38:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g8PFcB9R014369; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:38:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:38:07 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020925.093807.04037851.imp@bsdimp.com> To: dave@dogwood.com Cc: grog@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 src/sys/i386/i386 legacy.c src/sys/i386/include legacyvar.h From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200209250531.g8P5VOdw083783@white.dogwood.com> References: <20020923.201300.80213923.imp@bsdimp.com> <200209250531.g8P5VOdw083783@white.dogwood.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <200209250531.g8P5VOdw083783@white.dogwood.com> Dave Cornejo writes: : A stupid minor nit - Is there a better word than 'legacy' since it's : relative? One day ACPI will be a legacy also. well, it really means 'some ad-hoc cobbled together set of proceedures to enumerate devices that aren't in some plug and play table' which can apply to all architectures. :-) 'legacy' is just a way of saying 'the nexus has to have special knowledge of these things, and have a lot of hacks to keep the various methods from interferring.' Since there never was a name for this mess, and since the problem can exist on multiple architectures, I think legacy is about as good as we are going to get. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message