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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   - I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple
> >     of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed
> >     %rcx register in the syscall instruction).  As a result, there is not a
> >     lot of similarity.  I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to
> >     get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt.
> 
> Any particular reason why you wanted to avoid using NetBSD code?

Because I was doing it for fun, and part of the fun was to see if I could
do it on my own.  And I wanted it to look more like FreeBSD than NetBSD.

Cheers,
-Peter
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"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5