Re: Include spdmem(4) in GENERIC amd64 & i386 kernels?

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Nov 7, 2008, at 5:24 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> The other solution is the way macppc does it at the moment: It adds a
> MD ki2c bus that direct-config attaches the devices found by OFW. It
> has the advantage of not touching all existing i2c device drivers. The
> disadvantage is that this needs MD ki2c bus attachments for the i2c
> devices found on macppc. So the relevant i2c devices need to be split
> up in several bus frontends and a chip backend.

Again, none of the /attachment itself/ is MD.

> With the way macppc does it every port needs its own attachment glue  
> through a MD i2c bus. Thus duplicating this attachment glue code  
> over and over again for every port.

This is simply not true.

have fun
Michael