Subject: Re: Locator values and usage
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/05/1997 23:06:08
[much deleted...]
>Chris Torek wrote a paper about 4.4BSD "new config", but never
>finished that paper. That paper comes close to describing the
>autoconfiguration system used in NetBSD, but doesn't cover a few cases
>(most notably __BROKEN_INDIRECT_CONFIG, which was added by us and is
>in the process of being removed by us, and the cfdriver/cfattach
>split, which was added by us and is hopefully here to stay 8-).
So, does this almost-finished paper exist in its unfinshed form
anywhere?
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