From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 10:46:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22660 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:46:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA22620 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:46:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 8182 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Mar 1998 18:53:32 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-021598 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19980304000632.51752@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:53:32 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: John-Mark Gurney Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Cc: "John S.Dyson" , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Brian Handy , Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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