Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 18:57:25 +0100 From: phk@phk.freebsd.dk To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: des@ofug.org, nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, peter@wemm.org, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mdodd@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The cbus driver for pc98 Message-ID: <69472.1045504645@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:33:27 MST." <20030217.103327.42775167.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20030217.103327.42775167.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <63119.1045502530@critter.freebsd.dk> > phk@phk.freebsd.dk writes: >: In message <20030217.101837.40575213.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >: >In message: <xzpbs1bclbz.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> >: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes: >: >: Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> writes: >: >: > I have had some questions like "Does PC98 have ISA bus?" or "Why PC98 >: >: > uses ISA driver?". To clear these questions and problems, I think >: >: > that adding separated cbus driver is better way. >: >: >: >: So you're duplicating a large amount of existing, working code just so >: >: you can avoid answering questions from confused users? Or are there >: >: any actual technical advantages to having a separate cbus driver? >: > >: >That's a little too harsh. >: >: I actually think that it would be an improvement over the current >: copy-the-isa-file-and-add-#ifdef-PC98-making-diffs-hard-to-read >: approach. > >Have you looked at the actual patch? That's exactly what this patch >does more of. Then I misunderstood the quoted bits of the patch, sorry. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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