From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 17 11:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-177-51.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.177.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C07F037BDA7 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:19:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA10544; Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200007171828.LAA10544@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Alexander Langer Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: removal of kvtop() on i386 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:55:52 +0200." <20000717155552.A19233@cichlids.cichlids.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:28:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > [reposting to -arch, where it is better] > > Hello! > > I recently wanted to port the if_ed driver to alpha. > FreeBSD/alpha still misses kvtop(), so I implemented it. The 'ed' driver should be rewritten to use newbus/busspace, at which point kvtop stops being an issue. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message