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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 18:45:00 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: removal of kvtop() on i386
Message-ID:  <20000718184500.E15761@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200007171828.LAA10544@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 11:28:03AM -0700
References:  <20000717155552.A19233@cichlids.cichlids.com> <200007171828.LAA10544@mass.osd.bsdi.com>

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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)


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