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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>
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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.)

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