From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 7 15:20:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA00277 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 15:20:38 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA00270 for ; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 15:20:37 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA29547; Sat, 7 Jan 1995 15:20:06 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: time.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: Heikki Suonsivu cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Porting cyclades driver; sigh In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Jan 95 20:44:24 +0200." <199501071844.UAA06214@smile.clinet.fi> Date: Sat, 07 Jan 1995 15:20:06 -0800 Message-ID: <29546.789520806@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > NetBSD has got ttymalloc & ttyfree; added into tty.[ch]. Don't know if > they are correct but hope so. I think someone here wanted to add this, but it was also supposed to be very simple! > i386/conf.c is is pretty different; implemented the necessary fancy macros > NetBSD has for exploding cdevsw entries and declarations. Leave rest to > someone else; this should be merged. I think we're actually hoping that cdevsw will go AWAY! The fancy macros are a nice stop-gap measure, but what we really need is a devfs that renders bdevsw and cdevsw entirely obsolete, and this is being worked on now. This is probably why nobody has bothered to bring the fancy macros in. > Can't you guys settle at least for the driver interfaces, if not bicycles? > :-/ It's sad, but we actually need to start talking more, first! :-) > I wouldn't mind someone shipping me a major number for cy driver, just in > case I happen to get it working before I get pissed off and install > linux... Ah, don't do that! :-) Your major number is 48. Jordan