Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 07:18:40 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> Cc: Chris Csanady <cc@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft manpages available for review Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980618071450.27009C-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980617183710.4662A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp>
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Michael Hancock wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > There are broad similarities between John-Mark's design and mine and I > > have corresponded with him in the past on the subject. This system was > > actually designed and mostly implemented about a year ago, long before I > > was away of John-Marks ideas. > > > > Now that I have added a flexible system for driver method registration > > (inspired by the vnode interface system), I believe that I have a robust > > framework which will adapt to most if not all of the different types of > > bus in common use. In addition, the core code is mature and well tested, > > with a high degree of data-hiding to improve forwards compatibility for > > binary driver distributions. > > How hard do you think it will be to port the Wildboar CardBus stuff over > to this design? A lot of Japanese institutions own BSDI source licenses so > there's been a lot of work done in making it run on both NetBSD and BSDI. > It would be nice to leverage of this effort. Based on porting a couple of NetBSD drivers for the TurboLaser bus, I don't expect there to be any problem in porting code based on config.new to this design. It would probably consist of just changing the arguments to probe and attach, constructing a different kind of driver struct and possibly defining one or two simple interfaces for CardBus specific behaviour. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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