Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:33:03 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove atdevbase? Message-ID: <200406011733.03424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040602070119.A22013@gamplex.bde.org> References: <200406011558.57696.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040602070119.A22013@gamplex.bde.org>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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