From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 19 13:49:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-138.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C395837B479 for ; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:49:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAJLu5F09713; Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:56:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011192156.eAJLu5F09713@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brandon Fosdick Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 14:55:55 EST." <3A18304B.689C2CFE@glue.umd.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:56:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Using what I consider to be a artifact of another operating system on a > machine that doesn't use that OS seems silly to me. Unless, of course, > that artifact has some useful feature(s) or functionality. If it does, I'm > all ears. What "you consider" doesn't have much bearing on the situation. As for useful functionality, this has been done to death. It should be enough for you to accept that the platform requires it, and that a goodly slice of platform-compliant firmware and software will fail in undesirable ways if it's not present. All of which has been explained in excruciating detail before. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message