Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:26:55 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Archie Cobbs <archie@dellroad.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Critical Regions Round II Message-ID: <3ABC685F.93B11487@elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103241928310.26714-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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Bruce Evans wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> > John Baldwin wrote:
> > > Archie said:
> > > > Shouldn't these be, e.g.,
> > > >
> > > > i386_disable_intr(), i386_enable_intr()
> > > >
> > > > and
> > > >
> > > > ia64_enable_intr(), ia64_disable_intr()
> > > No, this code should not be used outside of sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}, which is
> > > mostly how things were (aside from broken things like the joy driver) before
> > > SMPng.
> >
> > I think the names should include either md_ or I386_ as a leadin so that people
> > who are 'copying' to make their own drivers a made fully aware
> > of what is going on.
>
> The MD names should simply be accessible in MI code. There are
^in
> currently too many of them in <machine/*.h>. A few broken drivers
> access MD interfaces directly: grepping for 'include.*i386/' gives:
>
> dev/ar/if_ar_isa.c:#include <i386/isa/ic/hd64570.h>
chip definitions should become machine independent.
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