Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch

[Naoto Shimazaki <igy%arhc.org@localhost>]

At Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:48:57 -0800,
Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:51:54PM +0200, Ichiro Fukuhara wrote:
> 
>  > 2. Use dv_unit to determine console instead comparering iobase.
>  >    Now you can attach ixpcom0 with physical address like this:
>  >         ixpcom*         at ixpsip? addr 0x90000000 size 0x4000
>  > Statically mapped address (0xf0000000) is still usable.
> 
> Using dv_unit for this purpose is wrong.  There should be no correlation
> between unit number and the purpose of the device instance.  We, in fact,
> have been trying to purge uses of dv_unit for this kind of purpose.

Should we use the hardware address (iobase)?

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Naoto Shimazaki