Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:18:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@auss2.alcatel.com.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels Message-ID: <199811032118.NAA00471@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 1998 16:16:46 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19981103161646.0097a780@mail.scancall.no>
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> >There would be little trouble including the FICL Forth engine in the > >kernel; I had actually considered the not insubstantial advantages to > >doing this (most importantly the ability to attach Forth to modules to > >do specialised load/unload operations), but I suspect that this will be > >viewed too much like heresy by many people. > > Anything that helps increase flexibility is good, if it doesn't bring > excessive bloat with it. From what I've heard so far, this would be a good > idea. Alternately, might it not be possible to add an option for it? Making it optional would make it worthless; if it's to be useful for anything it needs to be a standard component. I'm by no means sure that it should. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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