From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 18 18:45:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1FDC37BBD1 for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA16001; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:45:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:45:00 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Alexander Langer , arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removal of kvtop() on i386 Message-ID: <20000718184500.E15761@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20000717155552.A19233@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200007171828.LAA10544@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200007171828.LAA10544@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:28:03AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:28:03AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > [reposting to -arch, where it is better] > > I recently wanted to port the if_ed driver to alpha. > > FreeBSD/alpha still misses kvtop(), so I implemented it. > > The 'ed' driver should be rewritten to use newbus/busspace, at which > point kvtop stops being an issue. I have to agree with Mike. Please do not dirty the Alpha code with obsoleted interfaces. The Alpha is a lot cleaner than our i386 code. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message