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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 1999 14:43:25 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu>
Subject:   Re: Bt848 driver broken in -current (was /dev/bktr0 failed)
Message-ID:  <19990603144325.A76340@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <37566334.7A75EDC4@cs.strath.ac.uk>; from Roger Hardiman on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:12:52PM %2B0100
References:  <37566334.7A75EDC4@cs.strath.ac.uk>

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On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 12:12:52PM +0100, Roger Hardiman wrote:
> It is temping to rip out the BSDI code.
> Althouth the NetBSD/OpenBSD people want me to add their patches to the
> source.

IMO, the right way forward for this is to bus-space the driver, and
provide the 'meat' of it under sys/dev/ somewhere.  This 'meat' should
be pretty much system independent.  Then, each of the camps can
provide their own code to attach to the meat; we'd use newbus,
NetBSD/OpenBSD would use newconfig, and BSDi would use whatever they
use (and possibly some macros to pretend to be doing bus-space).

I started to do this, but found it to be too much work compared to
what my priorities are (I do not estimate it to be more than two-three
nights of hacking, but that is time I presently do not have for that
project :-(

Eivind.


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