From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 19 20:31:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27956 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:31:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from d183-205.uoregon.edu (d183-205.uoregon.edu [128.223.183.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA27931 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:31:44 GMT (envelope-from gurney_j@efn.org) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by d183-205.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA17133; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <19980419203139.35191@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:31:39 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: source code layout? References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Matthew N. Dodd on Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 10:43:40PM -0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew N. Dodd scribbled this message on Apr 19: > On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > what is tce? > > PCI is independent of i386. the MACS have PCI and so do some SGI's I > > believe, (and possibly some SUNs too) > > So which drivers in sys/pci compile against those targets? IMHO until a > driver has been compiled and ported to a specific arch we shouldn't be > mis-filing them in sys/pci. well.. I guess we should put all of sys/net, sys/kern, sys/isofs, etc. under sys/i386 as they haven't been compile and ported to another arch... > sys/i386/pci should work just fine. > > Actually, I'd really like to see > > sys/bus/{isa,eisa,pci} > sys/i386/{isa,eisa,pci} > sys/pc98/{isa,eisa,pci} if the bus/device code was writen properly, these last two wouldn't exist... if they did, they would only have a couple of files... > ... > > Which would reduce the amount of divergence to support arch dependent > bits. > > I'm sure the PC98 guys would be able to express how much they would enjoy > not having to constantly pull up their files to -current. > > NetBSD does have its problems but they've taken steps towards resolving > some of these issues. hmm... guess I need to update my tree and see what they've done reciently... -- John-Mark Gurney Modem Rev/FAX: +1 541 346 9237 Cu Networking P.O. Box 5693, 97405 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD Don't trust anyone you don't have the source for To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message