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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:13:20 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Nathan Whitehorn <nathanw@uchicago.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BMAC Ethernet Driver
Message-ID:  <4818A8B0.6020805@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4818A765.50507@uchicago.edu>
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Hi Nathan,

> I'm trying to figure out where to put the files. There are a lot of 
> sparc64 (and i386) specific drivers in /sys/dev, but SoC peripherals 
> tend to end up in an arch-specific location. For powermac hardware, we 
> seem to have a mix (UART driver in /sys/dev, built-in ATA in powermac). 
> Unless someone tells me otherwise, I will put the if_bm* stuff in powermac.

  I was mistaken in putting the ATA stuff (and others) into powermac/. 
It makes it a tad more difficult to build modules, manpages etc. There's 
plenty of precedent for single-arch drivers going into dev/. It also 
makes it easier for folk to find things when they are doing changes that 
sweep the tree, such as modifying a field in the ifnet struct.

  I vote for it to go into dev/.

later,

Peter.



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