isa arch-dependent and arch-independent

Yonghong Yan noah.yan at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 15:02:48 PDT 2007


On 11/1/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
>
> :the codes for isa bus in pc32/i386: the arch-independent is in
> :sys/bus/isa, and a folder under that, i.e. i386, is for i396-specific.
> :But also found another folder in sys/platform/pc32/isa that is
> :arch-dependent. should the sys/bus/isa/i386/* be merged to
> :sys/platform/pc32/isa/?
>
>     It probably could be merged, yes.
>
> :also, the sys/bus/isa/pnpeat.c (an i386-dependent file in the
> :arch-independent folder) seems not used anywhere, remove it?
> :
> :Thanks
> :Yonghong
>
>     I believe that module is used.  All it does is eat certain PNP ids
>     so the system doesn't complain about them.
then it probably needs to go to the i386-specific, i.e platform/pc32/isa ?


>
>                                         -Matt
>                                         Matthew Dillon
>                                         <dillon at backplane.com>
>





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