On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Colin Wood wrote:

> Matt Thomas wrote:
> > At 02:48 PM 11/17/2000 -0500, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > > > probably, but we haven't gotten around to creating syssrc/dev/adb/ quite
> > > > yet.  presumably, much of the ADB code (well at least the keyboard and
> > > > mouse drivers) should be MI and could go in there...
> > 
> > The adb controller code really should do in sys/dev/apple to follow the
> > dev/dec & dev/sun existing convention.  adb devices could go either in
> > dev/apple or dev/adb (probably the latter if you really consider it a bus).
> > However, the NuBus code should go into dev/nubus so it can be (one day)
> > shared by macppc.
> 
> ah, but i believe that NeXT machines also have ADB devices....of course, i
> have no idea how similar the implementation is, tho.  would we still want
> dev/apple in this case?  also, i'm not sure if macppc and mac68k can share
> the same controller code or not.  from what i remember, the macppc 
> controllers are an evolution of the later (CUDA) mac68k controllers, but
> i'm not positive about this.

Yeah.  PowerMacs (except laptops) use Cuda all the way up through the
beige G3s. After that, most of them contain a watered down PMU (powerbook
ADB chip) for power management, with the ADB microcode supposedly
removed.... 


Later,
David

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