Subject: config question
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Brain fried. Explanation is in file \"core\". <greywolf@lonewolf.ithaca.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/01/1995 16:02:39
Greetings!

I'm kind of curious about something.

It seems to me that the configs for various platforms are somewhat crippled
in a way.  Perhaps "crippled" isn't quite right...
Under the 1.0 config(.new), on the SPARC, at least, one cannot attach
sd/st/sr devices directly to the scsibus.  Under the i386, there
doesn't seem to be a problem with this.  Why is this?

It would be much nicer to be able to declare

esp* at sbus0 slot ? offset ?
sd0     at esp0 target 0 drive 0

instead of having to declare a "tg" target for each one.

I'm just curious as to what rationale, if any, lies behind the way
this works.  Is there only one level of traversal in the device tree,
or...?


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