Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:53:32 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "John S.Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Handy <handy@sag.space.lockheed.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Message-ID: <XFMail.980304105332.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> In-Reply-To: <19980304000632.51752@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
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On 04-Mar-98 John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Simon Shapiro scribbled this message on Mar 3: > > [...] > >> I retire. Warner has brought this list of ideas to the point of >> perfection. Now we need to scrap it and start over, just like we do to >> good, working pieces of the kernel... >> >> Oh, we need a special reward for this; The most re-written portion of >> the >> system. > > that would have to be syscons.c closely followed by sio.c... (256 revs > to syscons and 199 revs to sio.c)... What about a complete subsystem award? I can think of few that can qualify... > p.s. Talking about sio, I have some mods that I'm going to be testing > that actually make use of the AST/4 register, and should eliminate > the COM_MULTIPORT option as it will only test the ports that are under > that specific master... (now I just wish that my University would > let me put diskless booting options in their bootp/dhcp server so I can > boot this one machine diskless :(, guess I'm going to have to use > PicoBSD)... How about getting rid of that ``%d more silo overflow..'' message? I am too limited in my understanding device drivers to see why that happens. I though that UARTs and RS-232C were well understood. Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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