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Date:      Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:33:03 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Remove atdevbase?
Message-ID:  <200406011733.03424.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040602070119.A22013@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <200406011558.57696.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040602070119.A22013@gamplex.bde.org>

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On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:14 pm, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I'd like to remove the atdevbase variable and use KERNBASE directly in
> > the few places it is still used if that is ok.  Patch is at
>
> Seems reasonable.
>
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/kill_atdevbase.patch
>
> Review of what I can quote easily: this URL appears to be well formed.

Do you want me to mail you a copy?

> What stops normal resource stuff working?  Is it just finding the frame
> buffer for consoles?

That and a few other places like to convert BIOS physical address
to virtual and back.  I've thought about going through and forcing those
places to use pmap_mapdev() but that's a bit more effort.

> Bruce

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