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Subject: Re: svn commit: r326773 - in head/sys: conf dev/syscon
From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 10:14 -0800, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> I think this name might confuse people looking for "syscons". Can it
> be 
> renamed? Also, if it is ARM-specific, maybe it belongs in sys/arm?
> -Nathan
> 
> On 12/11/17 10:04, Kyle Evans wrote:
> > 
> > Author: kevans
> > Date: Mon Dec 11 18:04:04 2017
> > New Revision: 326773
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/326773
> > 
> > Log:
> >    Add generic 'syscon' driver
> >    

It's definitely not arm-specific.  It's the modern linux/fdt way of
letting drivers access MMIO spaces they don't own (in terms of those
ranges being included in a reg property that would cause us to set up
rman resources for the device).

I'm not sure I would have made a new directory in dev/ for it though...
it's such a trivial little thing I would think it belongs with the
dev/extres stuff.

-- Ian