From owner-freebsd-new-bus Thu Jan 27 3:28: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-new-bus@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1793F155C4 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:28:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p06-dn03kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.232.224.135]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id UAA06408; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 20:27:48 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <388FBC62.C06BEB9B@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:32:50 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" , new-bus@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbus from a documentation view References: <20000126094020.G290@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20000126182309.H290@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-new-bus@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > *cough* > > ``Newbus is the new bus abstraction layer architecture which saw its > introduction in FreeBSD 4.0. Its goals are to provide a more object > oriented means of interconnecting the various busses and devices which > a host system provides to the Operating System. Its main features > include amongst others: dynamic attaching, easy modularisation of > drivers, and pseudo-busses.'' Please, see to it that the above appears on the back of 4.0-RELEASE's cds. Not even Brett Glass could fault it. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "2 b or not to b" meaning varies depending on whether one uses the 79 or the 83 standard. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-new-bus" in the body of the message