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From: wittb@nextnet.csus.edu (brian witt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: a pseudo-device?
Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.development
Date: 8 Mar 1994 04:15:04 GMT
Organization: California State University Sacramento, USA
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Summary: when a device or pseudo-device?
Keywords: coprocessor, devices

I have a co-processor board for an XT made by Definicon (see Byte
Sept 1985).  This board has a National Semi 32032, MMU, FPU on it,
2meg RAM, and 2 serial ports.  I would like to create a software
interface to this board and its 64K RAM window and two I/O ports.
The big goal is to put Mach 3.0 up there.  The little (realistic)
goal is to get the serial porttalking.

Is this a device, or a pseudo-device?  And for a pseudo-device,
what is the digit after the name in the ./conf directory?  I added
"bpfilter" to my kernel.  In conf/ALL it has a 3 after it; the other
files (.conf/SUN-LAMP) have a 4 aftwards.  Are either numbers OK?

Discussion, please.

--- brian witt

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