Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 20:07:07 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: scottl@FreeBSD.org Cc: jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha mem.c promcons.c src/sys/alpha/tlsb zs_tlsb.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 mem.c src/sys/cam cam_xpt.c src/sys/cam/scsi scsi_ch.c scsi_pass.c scsi_pt.c s Message-ID: <20040223.200707.35796907.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040223150304.F66630@pooker.samsco.home> References: <8758.1077551092@critter.freebsd.dk> <200402231551.14698.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040223150304.F66630@pooker.samsco.home>
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Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: Good planning now is worth a ton of #ifdefs later. I support what PHK is
: aiming for here. I don't think that you really are away of the
: significant differences between 4.x and 5.x and how messy it has become to
: support both with the same source.
Supporting the tip of both isn't that horrible (I do it with OLDCARD),
but supporting all N versions of 4.x is ugly.
: The 'MPSAFE' and 'FAST' lines will probably be either reversed or put
: under bootverbose before 5.3. It would be nice if there was a way to
: express these flags from within the probe line, but our driver model
: doesn't suppor that at all. Tearing up the API for such a cosmetic
: change probably isn't worthwhile right now, but might be considered if
: we ever get a multi-pass newbus framwork.
If we printed the probe information AFTER attach succeeded, then we
could do it...
Warner
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