Subject: Re: 'machine' DDB command
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
From: Jaromír Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/18/2001 20:20:15
John Hawkinson wrote:
> What's the advantage of making the table const? You're making it sound
> like an end rather than a means.

1. it's good programming practice
2. it's good for things like LARGEPAGES on i386 or similar thing on
   other archs
3. it's good in case an embedded vendor would like to ROM a kernel

The first reason is mainly why I do this.

Jaromir
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Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
@@@@  Wanna a real operating system ? Go and get NetBSD, dammit!  @@@@