cleaning up/updating "The Design of the NetBSD I/O subsytems"?

[Blair Sadewitz-2]

Hello,

This paper:

http://nicostuff.org/docs/sys-programming/os-netbsd/netbsd-io-2002.pdf
(the original URL is no longer valid)

is excellent (I've started reading it, but have referred to it on
occasion in the past).  It is, however, aging, and
could use technical review.  I'd be happy to work on the grammar,
myself.  Though of course contributions
from developers and others alike are welcome, ideally those most
qualified for each
section would work on them, and perhaps material could be added.  Of
course, all of this depends upon
consent of the original author.  IMHO, having a polished [hypertext]
version of this available on www would
likely encourage both personal and professional development for NetBSD.

Comments?  If there's interest, I'll attempt contact with the author.
Given the work he put in to this,
it would be a shame to let it stagnate further.

Regards,

--Blair

[Jeremy C. Reed]

Wow. That would have been awesome to publish and publicise some years ago.

Yes, please contact the author. It would be great if you can encourage him
to release this as BSD licensed.

If licensed appropriately, maybe this content should be merged into the
existing "NetBSD Internals"
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/internals/en/index.html

Or if they cover a lot of the same information, then maybe just update and
continue to make it available as a complementary document.

Thanks for pointing this out.

[James K. Lowden-2]

Blair Sadewitz wrote:
> IMHO, having a polished [hypertext]
> version of this available on www would
> likely encourage both personal and professional development for NetBSD.

FWIW, I like the PDF format for something like this.  It's very hard to
get something with the same typeset quality in HTML, cf. page 18.  

> Comments?  If there's interest, I'll attempt contact with the author.

It's excellent work.  I would be happy to edit it for clarity and idiom.
Life would sure by easier if we could start with the source document.  

--jkl