From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 19:48:36 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B53D537B401; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:48:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47C8443FB1; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5792A7EA; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:48:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 19:48:36 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20030501024836.2D5792A7EA@canning.wemm.org> cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.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 ... X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 02:48:37 -0000 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Peter Wemm 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