Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 03:45:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> Cc: new-bus@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbus from a documentation view Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001260341430.462-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <20000126094020.G290@daemon.ninth-circle.org>
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > ``As a system that allows for a very structured device and bus > architecture by means of interconnecting busses and devices in a logical > way.'' Object Oriented Dynamic Attachment Bus Abstraction Layer would be 'catch phrases' I would try to use. :) > Also, did I miss important files functions in this list: > > machine/bus.h <which maps to sys/alpha/include/bus.h or > sys/i386/include/bus.h depending on which hardware we run) > > machine/bus_memio.h <also in alpha and i386 version> > I see that this one is basically an empty header, deprecated in > usage? > > machine/bus_pio.h <also in alpha and i386 version> > I see that this one is also an empty header, also deprecated in > usage? > > machine/resource.h <alpha/i386> > > sys/bus.h <machine independant> > > sys/bus_private.h <machine independant> > > sys/module.h <machine independant> > > The function houdeholding is for later today. =) So long as you make it clear that the newbus, bus-space, bus-dma and the resource manager are different things though in some cases more or less related to eachother I think you'll be ok. (Since it wasn't very clear where one stopped and another began when I started looking at things.) -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-new-bus" in the body of the message
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