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Date:      Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:38:56 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP; new options for -current! 
Message-ID:  <14762.953494736@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Mar 2000 21:14:47 %2B0800." <20000319131447.E6EF21CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au> 

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In message <20000319131447.E6EF21CD9@overcee.netplex.com.au>, Peter Wemm writes
:
>If you are using old drivers that haven't been newbusified yet, you will
>need to add 'options COMPAT_OLDPCI' and/or 'options COMPAT_OLDISA' to your
>kernel configs and regenerate.  Otherwise you will get compile failures.

I think this is premature.

I tried to newbusify if_mn.c, but after having added about 50 lines
of code to replace the current about 10, I gave up.

We need a highlevel wrapper for newbus before we should force people
to upgrade the old-style drivers.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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