Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:06:29 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Cc: FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mk48txx Message-ID: <20061209210629.GG86517@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20061209201438.B42195@localhost> References: <20061209154559.B1408@localhost> <20061209185539.GA34399@alchemy.franken.de> <20061209201438.B42195@localhost>
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On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:19:29PM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > >On platforms which don't use genclock(4), yet, sys/kern/subr_rtc.c > >will clash with the MD RTC driver, f.e. with sys/i386/isa/clock.c. > >So far mk48txx(4) is only used on FreeBSD/sparc64 and requires > >eeprom(4) and genclock(4) to be actually usable. For compile- > >testing changes to mk48txx(4) on another platform, cross-compiling > >the sparc64 GENERIC is probably the simplest approach. > >AFAICT the reset pin of the MK48Txx watchdog is only connected to > >something in Sun E250, E450 and Exx00 but one can actually test > >the watchdog support in the driver in any sun4u machine where > >eeprom(4) attaches by observing the MK48TXX_FLAGS_WDF bit. > > Sun? Enlightning. > > >>What's it do anyway? No manpage. > > > >I didn't get around to adapt the NetBSD mk48txx.4 so far but > >the user point of view is covered by eeprom.4. > > I would like to suggest that you spend two hours putting in a very basic > man page. Rip out the guts of an existing one and fill in the blanks > with a few details. It makes the driver so much more finished and it > might just be that someone updates the page. I favor having no man page over having something incomplete or inadequate like f.e. esp.4 or bus_space.9 as IMO wrong information can confuse way more and leaves a worse impression than no information at all. Marius
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