Re: mk48txx

On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 08:19:29PM +0100, Nick Hibma wrote:
> >On platforms which don't use genclock(4), yet, sys/kern/subr_rtc.c
> >will clash with the MD RTC driver, f.e. with sys/i386/isa/clock.c.
> >So far mk48txx(4) is only used on FreeBSD/sparc64 and requires
> >eeprom(4) and genclock(4) to be actually usable. For compile-
> >testing changes to mk48txx(4) on another platform, cross-compiling
> >the sparc64 GENERIC is probably the simplest approach.
> >AFAICT the reset pin of the MK48Txx watchdog is only connected to
> >something in Sun E250, E450 and Exx00 but one can actually test
> >the watchdog support in the driver in any sun4u machine where
> >eeprom(4) attaches by observing the MK48TXX_FLAGS_WDF bit.
> 
> Sun? Enlightning.
> 
> >>What's it do anyway? No manpage.
> >
> >I didn't get around to adapt the NetBSD mk48txx.4 so far but
> >the user point of view is covered by eeprom.4.
> 
> I would like to suggest that you spend two hours putting in a very basic 
> man page. Rip out the guts of an existing one and fill in the blanks 
> with a few details. It makes the driver so much more finished and it 
> might just be that someone updates the page.

I favor having no man page over having something incomplete
or inadequate like f.e. esp.4 or bus_space.9 as IMO wrong
information can confuse way more and leaves a worse impression
than no information at all.

Marius