From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 27 20:57: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from metriclient-2.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BEF14DC3; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:56:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by metriclient-2.uoregon.edu (8.9.1/8.8.7) id UAA13895; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19990727205504.02382@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:55:04 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Kazutaka YOKOTA Cc: Gary Palmer , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for Alpha/AXP References: <86208.932805444@noop.colo.erols.net> <199907240854.RAA19619@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: <199907240854.RAA19619@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 05:54:29PM +0900 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-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 Kazutaka YOKOTA scribbled this message on Jul 24: > > >> I am afraid this is not quite right. > >> > >> Bruce, Doug and I are currently in discussion to fix this. > > > >Hrm. Why does the AXP cons.c track udev_t while the x86 verson > >doesn't? As best as I can tell, the AXP doesn't seem to need it any > >more than the x86 does, unless I've missed something. > > As dev_t is now a struct, we cannot track dev_t for SYSCTL. It has to > be udev_t. sys/i386/i386/cons.c should be doing the same as the alpha > version, rather than vice versa. > > To quote Bruce: "alpha/alpha/cons.c should be identical with > i386/i386/cons.c and not in a machine-dependent place. All current > differences are bugs" :-) hmmm.. guess it's time for me to bring out my MI cons.c that I did a long time ago and dust it off?? Bruce kinda vetoed it, but I also didn't have the courage to commit it back then... and it's not hard to make it MI.... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 541 684 8449 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 "The soul contains in itself the event that shall presently befall it. The event is only the actualizing of its thought." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message