Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 18:29:51 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) Message-ID: <199711010759.SAA00611@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 01 Nov 1997 14:21:44 %2B0900." <807.878361704@coconut.itojun.org>
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> >Anyone likely to complain if I add a new datastructure to i386/bios.c and
> >start populating it with stuff that various parts of the system glean
> >about the BIOS environment? Or should I be using a procedural lookup
> >interface for this?
> >eg. either:
> > foo = i386biosinfo->bios_memsize;
> >or
> > error = i386biosinfo("memsize", &foo)
> >??
...
> I like the prior one better since the spelling mistake can be
> found by the compiler. In the latter case spelling mistake like
> i386biosinfo("memsizee", &foo) can be detected only in runtime.
Ok, so it takes the developer a few more minutes. OTOH, it means that
things can be dynamically added without having to change the data
structure.
It's a little academic just at the moment, as the task I wanted it to
solve doesn't appear to do what I wanted. I'll keep it on the back
burner for next time though.
mike
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