Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:57:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( Message-ID: <199707261527.AAA28100@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <6019.869903071@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 26, 97 09:44:31 am"
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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > As usual, if you start to fiddle this stuff, you hit your head on the > usual suspects: > > 1. Improved support for loadable devices. 'kn oath. Where is the ELF toolset at these days? What's the current feeling on linker set technology as it applies to loadable modules? What happened to Doug R's work on this too? > 2. Real mode BIOS calls. Well, we have someone claiming to be starting work on this. I've been pursuing an alternative, but I haven't had much luck getting standalone binaries running (yet). > 3. A Registry. You were talking about a method-based registry a while back; is this still the current "best-of' mechanism? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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