From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 20 01:20:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA21223 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA21161 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA18187; Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:19:43 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:19:43 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Julian Elischer cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vote:? reversion of BDE change please? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 19 Oct 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > Particularly I'd like to know if it breaks tha alpha port, or > the new device framework? > As it is now it certainly breaks several automatic build processes I know > of (including the /usr/share/examples/drivers scripts) The alpha doesn't do its ISA configuration like this at all. The interrupt handlers are static functions inside the driver and are registered explicitly when the device is attached. The i386 code should go in this direction IMHO. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message