Subject: Re: com rumblings...
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@NetBSD.org>
From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett_damore@tadpole.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/19/2006 22:24:46
Bill Studenmund wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 01:21:30PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>   
>> Charles M. Hannum wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:54:53PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>   
>>> As for zs vs. com, notice that their guts are almost identical.  Maybe
>>> this is because I retooled both of them at the same time...
>>>       
>> Maybe.  I should look at it in more detail.  It looks like there are
>> enough differences that making zs.c just another instantiation of com(4)
>> might be a bad idea.  (The separate mouse/keyboard streams at least
>> comes to mind.)
>>     
>
> That'd be a bad idea. The 8530 has enough stuff going on that trying to 
> shove it into a different family's concept of how registers work & such 
> would just be nasty.
>
> Charles got the core of the logic right in the two of them, that's good 
> enough.
>
> Take care,
>
> Bill
>   

That matches my analysis.   Thanks.

    -- Garrett

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