On Thu, 21 Dec 95 09:36:54 EST 
 "Gordon W. Ross" <gwr@mc.com> wrote:

 > NetBSD could use some way for bootable device drivers (like sd.c)
 > to make available devices known to port-specific swapgeneric code,
 > including things like what the real target ID was, or which sub-
 > device on an xy controller, etc.  Then, swapgeneric could use the
 > info from the PROM to reliably determine which kernel driver best
 > matches the parameters used by the PROM to specify that device.
 > 
 > That's a project for someone...

Chuck Cranor did this for the Sparc ... his scheme works with OpenPROM 
and Sunmon systems.  No doubt needs some munging for the sun3, but might 
be worth looking at for a model, at least.  The alpha needs something 
like this, too.

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