On Sun, 11 Jan 98 17:35:43 -0800 
 "Chris G. Demetriou" <cgd@pa.dec.com> wrote:

 > Who really cares if /dev/mem has the same number on the i386 as it
 > does on the sparc?
 > 
 > It doesn't really matter.  If you're thinking of MAKEDEV script gunk,
 > well, "shell variables are a good thing."  8-)
 > 
 > 
 > I'm prefectly willing to have just one big table shared by all ports.
 > If nobody argues against that, I say we go with it.  It's a
 > maintenance win (which is something which does matter 8-).

Your suggestion for a common-per-MACHINE_ARCH seems to be to support
booting on another root fs if you just have a kernel... if you do that
you've gotta have same-minor-numbers.

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