Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 18:17:12 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development Projects Message-ID: <199805060117.SAA00379@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 May 1998 17:11:37 PDT." <199805060011.RAA18884@bubba.whistle.com>
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> Isn't there a project to clean up & abstract device drivers > from the bus architecture of the device? That would make the > same driver work well whether PCI, ISA, PnP, .. or whatever? Yes, there are a couple of efforts in this direction - Justin is bringing a close relative of the "bus space" model from NetBSD into -current, initially to support the CAM code, but it's fully separate and IMHO is a very clean way to do this. There's also JMG's very blue-sky driver interface reengineering project, which isn't going anywhere fast but which is trying to address the same problem. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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