From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Sep 8 16:21:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04590 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:21:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04577 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 16:21:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA07283; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:15:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:15:13 -0600 (MDT) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199809082315.RAA07283@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Doug Rabson cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bt848 driver for Alpha Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.alpha In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> Ick. Ick. Ick. Almost all of the CAM code uses the bus space facility >> to do this. Why re-invent the wheel? > > I wasn't re-inventing anything. I just happened to look at a different > wheel. Constructing a bus space around this is trivial (virtually the > same as the i386 bus space). Well, the NCR driver is an MI driver, so it should use MI interfaces to get it's work done. My (incorrect??) assumption was that you were pushing for writeb and friends to become MI interfaces. > -- > Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com > Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 > Fax: +44 181 381 1039 -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message