Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:21:59 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy Message-ID: <XFMail.000113102159.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200001122113.NAA58059@rah.star-gate.com>
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On 12-Jan-00 Amancio Hasty wrote: > I agree with Warner now if people can come up with other uses for > an "ACPI" language then I guess is okay ;however, for just restoring > vga graphic's state I think that I would find it hard to justify > bolting > an interpreter in the kernel . I think that depends entirely on how heavy the interpreter... If you have a language which is basically 'machine code' its fairly easy to write an interpreter.. (Especially if you had a tool 'compile' it before it was loaded into the kernel) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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