From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 24 01:18:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA17031 for current-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:18:51 -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 BAA16991 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA15276; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:45:33 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707240815.RAA15276@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Boot file system idea! Slick In-Reply-To: <19970724004216.19551@micron.efn.org> from Jonathan Mini at "Jul 24, 97 00:42:16 am" To: j_mini@efn.org Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 17:45:32 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, imp@rover.village.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, pechter@lakewood.com, terry@lambert.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-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jonathan Mini stands accused of saying: > > > > I can see people screaming about latency already. > > Well. My field is usally more sound and video and less netowrk > performance. Every loss means less fps, and high timeouts for > streaming devices can cause ruined output. So, for me, the latency > isn't a big deal, more the amount of CPU cylces it takes. (thought > latency hurts often too) Latency is just CPU cycles wasted on someone else's work 8) > > That'd be invaluable; there is a plethora of data that can be obtained > > from the BIOS, and it is senseless to try to reinvent the weel _if_ > > it's possible to do it that way. > > Well, then. I will make sure I send my modifications into the FreeBSD core > team to be commited. I agree abotu BIOS having lots of useful info, I jsut > don't like its API. As long as I get a copy too 8) -- ]] 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 [[