Re: Problems with mach64 on NetBSD/sparc64
Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:51:38AM -0600, Marc Aurele La France wrote: >> I would venture to guess that a different file descriptor is needed for >> every adapter in the system. > Yeah, I would prefer to use /dev/fb* for the PCI devices too (this is > what is used for SBUS and UPA devices already) - and avoid all the PCI > bus scanning that way too. No. My preference is definitely to keep the OS out of the way, as much as possible, because it's more portable to do so (from our perspective). This OS-as-God idea is out-to-lunch, IMNSHO. Look at Linux as an example of why. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Academic Information and | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | Communications Technologies | email: [email protected] | | 352 General Services Building +-----------------------------------+ | University of Alberta | | | Edmonton, Alberta | Standard disclaimers apply | | T6G 2H1 | | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals.