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Author SHA1 Message Date
gehenna
77a6b82b27 Merge the gehenna-devsw branch into the trunk.
This merge changes the device switch tables from static array to
dynamically generated by config(8).

- All device switches is defined as a constant structure in device drivers.

- The new grammer ``device-major'' is introduced to ``files''.

	device-major <prefix> char <num> [block <num>] [<rules>]

- All device major numbers must be listed up in port dependent majors.<arch>
  by using this grammer.

- Added the new naming convention.
  The name of the device switch must be <prefix>_[bc]devsw for auto-generation
  of device switch tables.

- The backward compatibility of loading block/character device
  switch by LKM framework is broken. This is necessary to convert
  from block/character device major to device name in runtime and vice versa.

- The restriction to assign device major by LKM is completely removed.
  We don't need to reserve LKM entries for dynamic loading of device switch.

- In compile time, device major numbers list is packed into the kernel and
  the LKM framework will refer it to assign device major number dynamically.
2002-09-06 13:18:43 +00:00
drochner
e047259a1f Initial import of the known working kernel bits for the NetBSD/cesfic
port. cesfic is a VME board with one or two mc68040 processors. See
the README file for details.
The port is working well with a.out userland, there are some problems
with ELF still, like applications running out of memory where it is not
expected. Some parts, in particular the pmap (which was taken from hp300
four years ago), need updating, but this is easier done within the NetBSD
CVS tree.
2001-05-14 18:22:58 +00:00