Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 20:55:04 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for Alpha/AXP Message-ID: <19990727205504.02382@hydrogen.fircrest.net> In-Reply-To: <199907240854.RAA19619@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>; from Kazutaka YOKOTA on Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 05:54:29PM %2B0900 References: <86208.932805444@noop.colo.erols.net> <199907240854.RAA19619@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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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
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