Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:49:01 -0500 From: "Norman C. Rice" <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breakage in -current for the ALPHA Message-ID: <19981123214901.A13260@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <199811231616.DAA03041@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 03:16:57AM %2B1100 References: <199811231616.DAA03041@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 03:16:57AM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote:
> >> They traditionally go in sys (e.g., ttycom.h). Of course, there is
> >> no such thing as a machine independant driver API. There isn't even
> >> such a thing as a machine independent driver API.
> >
> >Eh? The second sentence might have been 'machine *dependent*'?
> >
> >In either case, what do you mean? There most certainly is both a DDI and
> >DKI for *BSD. There are MI functions (even in FreeBSD which is
> >historically less sensitive to MI vs MD issues) such as bcopy (DKI) or
> >devswitch functions. There are MD functions such as isa_configure (DDI).
>
> 1. Mispelling of `dependent' is annoying.
^^^^^^^^^^
The misspelling of `misspelling' when trying to make a point
about correct spelling is also annoying. :)
--
Regards,
Norman C. Rice, Jr.
> 2. Nothing is really machine independent.
>
> Bruce
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