From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 21 14:51:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles514.castles.com [208.214.165.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A204E1549E for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:49:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01423; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908212142.OAA01423@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:46:01 MDT." <199908212046.OAA48501@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:42:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <199908211951.MAA00837@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : APM is only attached to the ISA bus for crufty reasons; I'm going to > > Actually, APM is attached to NEXUS. Why pass it kernel environment > variables when it will likely be modified to grok whatever config > scheme comes from newbus? Because it's not a device, or more specifically, if it should be attached to anything, it should be attached to a 'bios' bus. The kernel environment is simply a convenient way to make it work right now, rather than waiting for the newbus parameter stuff to arrive (which will likely be carried in the environment anyway). -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message