>Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 06:59:07 -0700
>From: "Gerald C. Simmons" <simmons@darykon.wa.com>
>
>I've been upgrading from NetBSD-1.0 to 1.2 as of late, and have question about
>the source tree. I'm just curious. I thought that all the architecture
>dependent code live under sys/arch/(xxx). What is the reason behind having
>some of this code under sys/dev?

Theoretically, all of the code under /sys/dev is machine-independent;
e.g. all of the drivers under /sys/dev/isa should be usable on both
i386 and alpha machines.  Some drivers (especially ISA ones) still
fall short of this ideal.
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