Remove atdevbase?

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:14 pm, Bruce Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I'd like to remove the atdevbase variable and use KERNBASE directly in
> > the few places it is still used if that is ok.  Patch is at
>
> Seems reasonable.
>
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/kill_atdevbase.patch
>
> Review of what I can quote easily: this URL appears to be well formed.

Do you want me to mail you a copy?

> What stops normal resource stuff working?  Is it just finding the frame
> buffer for consoles?

That and a few other places like to convert BIOS physical address
to virtual and back.  I've thought about going through and forcing those
places to use pmap_mapdev() but that's a bit more effort.

> Bruce

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