Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 18:40:34 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Chris Csanady <cc@tarsier.ca.sandia.gov>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Draft manpages available for review Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980617183710.4662A-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980617071725.27009B-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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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. Regards, Mike Hancock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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