Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:23:10 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: new-bus@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newbus from a documentation view Message-ID: <20000126182309.H290@daemon.ninth-circle.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001260341430.462-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from winter@jurai.net on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 03:45:10AM -0500 References: <20000126094020.G290@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001260341430.462-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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-On [20000126 09:59], Matthew N. Dodd (winter@jurai.net) wrote: >On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: >> ``As a system that allows for a very structured device and bus >> architecture by means of interconnecting busses and devices in a logical >> way.'' > >Object Oriented >Dynamic Attachment >Bus Abstraction Layer *cough* ``Newbus is the new bus abstraction layer architecture which saw its introduction in FreeBSD 4.0. Its goals are to provide a more object oriented means of interconnecting the various busses and devices which a host system provides to the Operating System. Its main features include amongst others: dynamic attaching, easy modularisation of drivers, and pseudo-busses.'' I probably still missed some things. Feel free to point them out and I'll try to rewrite it within the boundaries of english. ;) >> machine/bus_memio.h <also in alpha and i386 version> >> I see that this one is basically an empty header, deprecated in >> usage? I see we #define bus_memio_h in machine/bus.h, so basically all drivers including machine/bus_memio.h and bus_pio.h are kinda out of synch with newbus/busspace? >> machine/bus_pio.h <also in alpha and i386 version> >> I see that this one is also an empty header, also deprecated in >> usage? See above. -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd W/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/B-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; How the gods kill... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-new-bus" in the body of the message
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