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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> 

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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



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