Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:48:36 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/acpica OsdEnvironment.c acpi_machdep.c acpi_wakeup.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 autoconf.c critical.c dump_machdep.c elf_machdep.c exception.s genassym.c identcpu.c initcpu.c legacy.c locore.s machdep.c mem.c nexus.c pmap.c ... Message-ID: <20030501024836.2D5792A7EA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpllxr5r4t.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > - I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple > > of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed > > %rcx register in the syscall instruction). As a result, there is not a > > lot of similarity. I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to > > get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt. > > Any particular reason why you wanted to avoid using NetBSD code? Because I was doing it for fun, and part of the fun was to see if I could do it on my own. And I wanted it to look more like FreeBSD than NetBSD. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030501024836.2D5792A7EA>