Date: Sat, 01 Nov 1997 14:21:44 +0900 From: Jun-ichiro itojun Itoh <itojun@itojun.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, jamil@trojanhorse.ml.org (Jamil J. Weatherbee), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) Message-ID: <807.878361704@coconut.itojun.org> In-Reply-To: mike's message of Sat, 01 Nov 1997 14:36:34 %2B1030. <199711010406.OAA00828@word.smith.net.au>
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>Anyone likely to complain if I add a new datastructure to i386/bios.c and
>start populating it with stuff that various parts of the system glean
>about the BIOS environment? Or should I be using a procedural lookup
>interface for this?
>eg. either:
> foo = i386biosinfo->bios_memsize;
>or
> error = i386biosinfo("memsize", &foo)
>??
(this mail does not talk about whether we will have this feature,
or not...)
I like the prior one better since the spelling mistake can be
found by the compiler. In the latter case spelling mistake like
i386biosinfo("memsizee", &foo) can be detected only in runtime.
itojun
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