Subject: Re: Kill /dev/cpu*?
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Reinoud Zandijk <imago@kabel065011.kabel.utwente.nl>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/26/2001 16:08:59
Hi Ben,
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Ben Harris wrote:
> I propose removing support for these devices from the kernel. Whatever
> functionality they were intended to have clearly never materialised, and
> CPU operations seem to be being provided by sysarch() IMB these days. No
> other architecture has /dev/cpu*. Any dissent?
AFAIK they were there to support hydra or the i486 copro ... but i agree
that if they aren't used then they might as well be discarded... If there
ever is a need for them we can allways create them anew...
Cheers,
Reinoud