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Date:      Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:31:39 -0700
From:      John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org>
To:        "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: source code layout?
Message-ID:  <19980419203139.35191@hydrogen.nike.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419223700.523x-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from Matthew N. Dodd on Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 10:43:40PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980419191215.14900F-100000@current1.whistle.com> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980419223700.523x-100000@sasami.jurai.net>

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Matthew N. Dodd scribbled this message on Apr 19:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > what is tce?
> > PCI is independent of i386. the MACS have PCI and so do some SGI's I
> > believe, (and possibly some SUNs too)
> 
> So which drivers in sys/pci compile against those targets?  IMHO until a
> driver has been compiled and ported to a specific arch we shouldn't be
> mis-filing them in sys/pci.

well.. I guess we should put all of sys/net, sys/kern, sys/isofs, etc.
under sys/i386 as they haven't been compile and ported to another arch...

> sys/i386/pci should work just fine.
> 
> Actually, I'd really like to see 
> 
> sys/bus/{isa,eisa,pci}
> sys/i386/{isa,eisa,pci}
> sys/pc98/{isa,eisa,pci}

if the bus/device code was writen properly, these last two wouldn't
exist... if they did, they would only have a couple of files...

> ...
> 
> Which would reduce the amount of divergence to support arch dependent
> bits.
> 
> I'm sure the PC98 guys would be able to express how much they would enjoy
> not having to constantly pull up their files to -current.
> 
> NetBSD does have its problems but they've taken steps towards resolving
> some of these issues.

hmm...  guess I need to update my tree and see what they've done
reciently...

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