From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 1 14:32:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89C9216A4D1 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:32:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E2043D55 for ; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:32:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 15458 invoked from network); 1 Jun 2004 21:32:30 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 1 Jun 2004 21:32:29 -0000 Received: from 10.50.41.233 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i51LWL6X059425; Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:32:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Bruce Evans Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:33:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200406011558.57696.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040602070119.A22013@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20040602070119.A22013@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406011733.03424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on server.baldwin.cx cc: mdodd@FreeBSD.org cc: peter@FreeBSD.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove atdevbase? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:32:30 -0000 On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:14 pm, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, John Baldwin wrote: > > I'd like to remove the atdevbase variable and use KERNBASE directly in > > the few places it is still used if that is ok. Patch is at > > Seems reasonable. > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/kill_atdevbase.patch > > Review of what I can quote easily: this URL appears to be well formed. Do you want me to mail you a copy? > What stops normal resource stuff working? Is it just finding the frame > buffer for consoles? That and a few other places like to convert BIOS physical address to virtual and back. I've thought about going through and forcing those places to use pmap_mapdev() but that's a bit more effort. > Bruce -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org