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To: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
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Subject: Re: INTs on the bt848 
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Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 14:48:16 -0800
From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Most Cool!

Can you wait till I implement the minor device functionality for
the tuner? I should be done by Sunday.

Tnks!
	Amancio

>From The Desk Of "Louis A. Mamakos" :
> I've got, around here somewhere, a structure definition I made of the
> Bt848 local registers, complete with all of the bitfields necessary to
> get the packing correctly aligned.   My goal was to replace the
> current idiom of dereferencing a pointer of the appropriate type
> to a simple structure reference.  This would make it less likely that
> you'd do the wrong thing with the wrongly typed pointer (e.g., u_char * vs
> u_long *).
> 
> I may take a shot at that when things settle down a bit - I'm not sure when
> exactly that will be with tax time and travel approaching.
> 
> louie	
>