Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 10:25:36 +0100 (MET) From: hm@altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Quick question on syscons.c Message-ID: <m0to5NA-00000BC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199602180527.QAA27533@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Feb 18, 96 04:27:33 pm
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>From the keyboard of Bruce Evans:
> See also /sys/i386/isa/pcvt/pcvt_hdr.h, which also suffers from NIH
Just for the record: no, pcvt does not suffer from NIH. Instead it suffers
from the fact that at a time, when there was no FreeBSD, the bits in the
header file were simply wrong, and a person some of you still know refused
to change it. Some time later when the confusion was at its maximum and
FreeBSD 1.0 alpha and NetBSD 0.8 appeared (btw, when scanning my archives,
i found a text of Rod and Chris on how the merge is to be done ... ;-) ),
i decided to make my own bit definitions to have them same, and this step
was a good one at that time (for me. i simply had to care about one header
file less which is a BIG plus if you have to deal with 2 core teams!).
I have not looked for years at the NetBSD and FreeBSD versions of the file,
but if the 2 core teams would agree on keeping them same, i'm the first to
use it!
hellmuth
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