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On 4/12/2013 1:43 PM, Jerry wrote:
> Really off-topic, but HAL is now deprecated on many modern systems. Why
> is FreeBSD continuing to use it? It is being replaced by "udev". You
> would think that FreeBSD-10 would be a perfect time to put HAL to bed
> and take a more modern approach.
>

It's not the gnu hal/dbus/bloat, it's an Atheros hardware abstraction 
layer.  It's not really that much different than using VFS for file 
systems instead of going straight to disk.