From owner-freebsd-config Wed Apr 30 03:09:26 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA19642 for config-outgoing; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 03:09:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA19636 for ; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 03:09:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id TAA28293; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:39:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704301009.TAA28293@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Startup userconfig parsing In-Reply-To: <26029.862394556@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 30, 97 03:02:36 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:39:13 +0930 (CST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, config@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-config@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > No, it's desired to have no user-specified configuration data then. > > Userconfig etc. are "temporary" kludges to get around h/w and BIOS > > braindamage. > > Feh. Why don't we just put a TCL interpreter into the kernel and have > done with this? /boot.tcl. Problem solved at a stroke. You're > entirely welcome, thanks. I was actually looking at a couple of slightly smaller interpreters, based purely on the issue that tcl wants too many system services. I could handle a small Forth or something like that. You were tinkering with a Forth interpreter a while back Jordan; what happened to it? How about the Forth spoken by the OpenBoot PROMs? Scoff not, I am _serious_. There are many in-kernel things for which this could be useful. > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[