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From: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Pedro=20F.=20Giffuni?=" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: the mythical syscons redesign document ( was Re: Porting wscons )
To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
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 --- Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> ha scritto: 
> On Wednesday 22 January 2003 9:36 pm, Nicolas Souchu
> wrote:
...
> >
> > What is called the kobj interface?
> 
> Kobj is just the low-level method dispatch framework
> which newbus (at 
> least newbus in 5.x) uses to call the drivers. Look
> at the kobj(9) 
> manpage.
>
I understand the sound drivers already use it, and
someday someone with lot's of spare time might start
rewriting FreeBSD to make it more modular..something
like SPIN OS where everything is an object.

I wonder.. how far did your patches first set of
patches for the Alpha go? ;).

cheers,

    Pedro.


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