Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:00:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/conf Makefile.alpha files.alpha src/sys/i386/conf Makefile.i386 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912181459560.79491-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199912172313.QAA83558@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912171507120.37239-100000@current1.whistle.com> Julian Elischer writes: > : Oh I know we've been doing it for a while but I wonder how neccesary it > : is.. > > All of the newbus code that is generated is generated by perl. The > perl code (sys/kern/makedevop.pl) looks complicated enough that > translation into another language would be difficult. The newbus generator was originally in sh/awk (it was derived from the vnode_if.sh script). Nick rewrote it in perl to make it more maintainable. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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