From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 10 18:49:27 2002 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 1D82C37B416; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3B1nCru011542; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:19:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Feature removal without replacement (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3CB4A9CC.B5D46293@webgiro.com> References: <4868.1018415500@critter.freebsd.dk> <3CB4A9CC.B5D46293@webgiro.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 11 Apr 2002 11:19:12 +0930 Message-Id: <1018489755.20755.13.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5 X-Spam-Level: (-2.5) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.6 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 06:38, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > If anyone feels it's time to refresh his Forth skills ;-) he may have a > look at the full-screen demos of what can be done with the bootforth > terminal emulation. Take a look at /usr/src/share/examples/bootforth/* . > I believe it is possible to implement a visual userconfig replacement > with these capabilities... Is there a way to write code that uses this stuff without having to reboot continuously? (I'm not talking vmware either) You can access the basic Forth engine from userland but it's difficult to do any loader specific stuff since none of the words are defined (last time I checked) --- 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