From owner-cvs-all Thu Apr 11 2:58:11 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFACC37B404; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 02:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webgiro.com (mailer2.webgiro.com [213.162.131.18]) by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32D968534; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:57:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3CB55E1D.33F83BE3@webgiro.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:57:49 +0200 From: Andrzej Bialecki Organization: WebGiro AB X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feature removal without replacement (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/conf NOTES) References: <4868.1018415500@critter.freebsd.dk> <3CB4A9CC.B5D46293@webgiro.com> <1018489755.20755.13.camel@chowder.gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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) The terminal emulation stuff implemented there doesn't work in that case either. It should be replaced by ncurses functions, when compiling standalone... Andrzej -- -------------------------------------------- Andrzej Bialecki, Chief System Architect WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) -------------------------------------------- FreeBSD developer (http://www.freebsd.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message