From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 13: 7:47 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2233214E2E; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 13:07:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA41358; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:07:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA16552; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:08:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200001122108.OAA16552@harmony.village.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy Cc: Amancio Hasty , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:04:24 +0100." <83336.947711064@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <83336.947711064@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:08:01 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <83336.947711064@critter.freebsd.dk> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : 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. I think you are right about this. I think ACPI might be a better target language since it could be the basis for a general "on panic, run these hooks before switching to the debugger" interface. However, I can't think of much other than the video cards that would need this level of complexity. IIRC, video chips on the mobo do have a 'reset' option, but I'm away from my paper spec and can't say for sure. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message