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On Thu, 1 May 1997, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Actually, it builds tables of functions at link time using linker
> sets.  The functions are then used early at runtime to build the
> devsw tables.  This implementation was expedient 17 months ago and
> bad 16 months ago.

I agree on the comment re linker sets. I would like to see these vanish
for a simple reason: try sometime to build a really minimal kernel and it 
will fail at link time since there are missing linker sets. ouch. 

By minimal, i mean minus any file systems for example. And yes, I do have 
a use for this.

ron