From owner-freebsd-arch Tue May 22 12: 5:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACAF437B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 12:05:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA20698; Tue, 22 May 2001 15:05:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:05:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200105221905.PAA20698@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: brian@Awfulhak.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: unit_list routines In-Reply-To: <200105221842.f4MIgqb84117@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <200105221842.f4MIgqb84117@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes: >The unit_list stuff is designed to be an easy way of tracking sparce >arrays of units - arrays that are generally expected to start at zero >and increment, but may sometimes be allocated randomly. The resource manager code was designed to do precisely that, and already exists. It may have gotten too entwined with the bus stuff, though, but it was certainly my intent that you should be able to use it for this purpose. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message