From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 23 08:22:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01058 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01053 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:22:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA09802; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:22:07 -0800 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 08:22:07 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Bruce Evans cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breakage in -current for the ALPHA In-Reply-To: <199811231616.DAA03041@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> 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. Eh? feral-gw.feral.com > grep dependent /usr/dict/words dependent dependently dependents independent independently interdependent > 2. Nothing is really machine independent. So? That's spurious logic. We all die, therefore we shouldn't attempt to live? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message