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Date:      Tue, 24 Nov 1998 03:16:57 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Breakage in -current for the ALPHA
Message-ID:  <199811231616.DAA03041@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> They traditionally go in sys (e.g., ttycom.h).  Of course, there is
>> no such thing as a machine independant driver API.  There isn't even
>> such a thing as a machine independent driver API.
>
>Eh? The second sentence might have been 'machine *dependent*'?
>
>In either case, what do you mean? There most certainly is both a DDI and
>DKI for *BSD. There are MI functions (even in FreeBSD which is
>historically less sensitive to MI vs MD issues) such as bcopy (DKI) or
>devswitch functions. There are MD functions such as isa_configure (DDI).

1. Mispelling of `dependent' is annoying.
2. Nothing is really machine independent.

Bruce

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