From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Dec 12 18:35:52 2000 From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 18:35:49 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.teliauk.com (mailhub.teliauk.com [195.12.225.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9785537B400; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:35:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from d1o314.teliauk.com (root@d1o314.teliauk.com [195.12.237.81]) by mailhub.teliauk.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id eBD2ZVA09950; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:35:43 GMT Received: from vilnya.demon.co.uk (fakeuser@t1o314p236.teliauk.com [195.12.238.236]) by d1o314.teliauk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA07012; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:35:12 GMT Received: from haveblue (haveblue.rings [10.2.4.5]) by vilnya.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 64692D9D2; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:35:04 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <015a01c064ad$96667230$0504020a@haveblue> From: "Cameron Grant" To: , Subject: newpcm/kobj Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 02:37:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG in the near future, i intend to commit my kobjified newpcm. this gives us several benefits, including: * easier extensibility- new optional methods can be added to ac97/mixer/channel classes without having to fixup every driver. * forward compatibility for drivers, provided no new mandatory methods are added. however, all drivers not in the tree at this time will need to be updated. i hope to mfc to -stable in approximately one month, along with the kobj system. newbus in -stable will not be kobjified. -cg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message