From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 13: 5:14 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6681D14D4A; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost.freebsd.dk [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA83338; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:04:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Warner Losh Cc: Amancio Hasty , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:01:34 MST." <200001122101.OAA16486@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:04:24 +0100 Message-ID: <83336.947711064@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <200001122101.OAA16486@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <200001121911.LAA57020@rah.star-gate.com> Amancio Hasty writes: >: No need to get that fancy and besides such language will probably >: be too complicated to the describe . I would just have the X server load >: a kernel module with the given code and state variables so that another >: kernel module can restore the graphics context . > >That is one way. The language idea wouldn't be too bad if it was in >ACPI's binary language, since tools exist to create that and interpret >that once we have ACPI in the kernel... I belive OS/2 already ha{d|ve} a script language for this. Check any video driver floppy for a moderately advanced graphics card. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message