Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 19:39:13 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, config@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Startup userconfig parsing Message-ID: <199704301009.TAA28293@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <26029.862394556@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 30, 97 03:02:36 am"
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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 [[
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