Subject: Machine independent drivers (Re: Reorg of Sun3 SCSI driver)
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Antti Miettinen <apm@kikka.hut.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 08/10/1995 11:09:21
>On Mon, 7 Aug 1995, David Jones wrote:
>> I am adding DMA and interrupts to the Sun3 si driver.  As part of this, I am
>> incorporating the "machine independent" ncr5380.c file into the Sun3 driver.

Which brings to my mind the following..

The various ethernet drivers for at least i386 and amiga look very
much alike. Wouldn't it make sense to have some kind of common
skeleton ethernet driver with hooks for chip/board/arch spesific
things?