From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 12 15:52:21 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0C0314F92; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 15:52:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA15207; Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:22:00 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200001122113.NAA58059@rah.star-gate.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 10:21:59 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Amancio Hasty Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp , Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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