From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 19 20:40:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00962 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:40:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA00829 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 03:39:39 GMT (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA26127; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:38:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 23:38:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: John-Mark Gurney cc: Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: source code layout? In-Reply-To: <19980419203139.35191@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > well.. I guess we should put all of sys/net, sys/kern, sys/isofs, etc. > under sys/i386 as they haven't been compile and ported to another arch... You missed the implicit qualification that I was speaking of device drivers. Actual hardware. > if the bus/device code was writen properly, these last two wouldn't > exist... if they did, they would only have a couple of files... Indeed. This would be optimal. > > NetBSD does have its problems but they've taken steps towards resolving > > some of these issues. > > hmm... guess I need to update my tree and see what they've done > reciently... They've done a good bit towards doing some of the things mentioned below, but I belive after a cursory glace over the spec that jmg's proposal is superior. http://d183-205.uoregon.edu/~jmg/FreeBSD/busdevice.html /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message