From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Jan 9 17:12:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA04817 for alpha-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:12:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA04807 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 17:12:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id SAA07399; Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:09:24 -0700 (MST) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 18:09:24 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199801100109.SAA07399@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Curt Sampson cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha port.. In-Reply-To: User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > As far as this actually happening on the FreeBSD side, I'd love to > see a lot of this stuff adopted into FreeBSD, since we rely on a > couple of FreeBSD folks for some of our device drivers. However, > last time I chatted with David Greenman (at ISPCon in SF last > August) he indicated to me that he felt that inb() and outb() were > just fine for device drivers, and he saw no need for any of the > bus_space stuff in NetBSD. If that was indeed David's position at the time, I think it's changed. All of bus.h as well as enough of the Bus DMA stuff to do page based bounce buffers has already been implemented and is available in the CAM SCSI layer snapshots. I should probably push to get these changes formally reviewed an put into the tree though. They aren't really CAM specific. > cjs > Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ > Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite mist, software reverberates > Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================