Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 03:16:57 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, mjacob@feral.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Breakage in -current for the ALPHA Message-ID: <199811231616.DAA03041@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> They traditionally go in sys (e.g., ttycom.h). Of course, there is >> no such thing as a machine independant driver API. There isn't even >> such a thing as a machine independent driver API. > >Eh? The second sentence might have been 'machine *dependent*'? > >In either case, what do you mean? There most certainly is both a DDI and >DKI for *BSD. There are MI functions (even in FreeBSD which is >historically less sensitive to MI vs MD issues) such as bcopy (DKI) or >devswitch functions. There are MD functions such as isa_configure (DDI). 1. Mispelling of `dependent' is annoying. 2. Nothing is really machine independent. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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