Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 22:07:41 +1100 (EDT) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Cc: jasone@canonware.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Beginning SPARC port Message-ID: <199712141108.DAA28542@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199712130002.RAA17704@usr04.primenet.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Dec 13, 97 00:02:15 am
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said: [...] > Part of getting the kernel working is in doing a lot of hardware > specific things. These need to be abstracted (this is my opinion) > to make ports easier. I think these should be encapsulated via a > C interface, so that for a new port, you can write a C stub that > provides the hardware specific information as hardcoded values for > the porting hardware you are using. Memory size, etc.. All the > things you would get from PPCBug, M68kBug, OpenBoot, PC BIOS, etc.. > I would be happy to help with this code. I hate to say this, but, see NetBSD.
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