On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Takeshi Shibagaki wrote:

> jruschme> While I agree that they only need to be the same as what is in MAKEDEV, I
> jruschme> was wondering whether they should be at some "standard" number such as 0 for
> jruschme> the block device (as in the i386 port)?
> jruschme> Alan, do TPTB have any thoughts on that one?

At present NetBSD doesn't have "standard" device major numbers. So put wd
where ever is convenient.

> I want to leave this problem to Mr. Allen. But I think complete
> compatibility for i386 is no means almostly, though IDE block device
> number is 10 in macppc, in other port is different from i386.

Right, compatabilit isn't needed. The reason most ports agree with i386 is
probably that they were copied from it. :-)

Take care,

Bill