cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/acpica OsdEnvironment.c acpi_machdep.c acpi_wakeup.c src/sys/amd64/amd64 autoconf.c critical.c dump_machdep.c elf_machdep.c exception.s genassym.c identcpu.c initcpu.c legacy.c locore.s machdep.c mem.c nexus.c pmap.c ...

Peter Wemm peter at wemm.org
Wed Apr 30 19:48:37 PDT 2003


Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Peter Wemm <peter at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> >   - I have tried to minimize looking at the NetBSD code, except in a couple
> >     of places (eg: to find which register they use to replace the trashed
> >     %rcx register in the syscall instruction).  As a result, there is not a
> >     lot of similarity.  I did look at NetBSD a few times while debugging to
> >     get some ideas about what I might have done wrong in my first attempt.
> 
> Any particular reason why you wanted to avoid using NetBSD code?

Because I was doing it for fun, and part of the fun was to see if I could
do it on my own.  And I wanted it to look more like FreeBSD than NetBSD.

Cheers,
-Peter
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