ocpbus(4)

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20080101.184909.195750479.imp at bsdimp.com>
            "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: In the beginning (when newbus was introduce circa 3.0) they were used
: by the busses to assign resources to the drivers they were adding.  It
: just turned out that the 'hints' were compiled into tables the drivers
: used.  In 4.x, the hints migrated from the config file to a text file
: called typically device.hints.  Throughout these underlying changes,
: the drivers have never really known about resource hints.  The bus is
: the only thing that parses and consumes them (the busses were changed
: from using the compiled in tables to using hints in 4.0).

s/4/5/g in the above.  The switch from config generated tables to
texual hints happened after RELENG_4 was branched.  Also, Newbus was
introduced in 3.2 not 3.0, although it was used for the alpha port in
3.0.

Warner