From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 30 20:17:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5BA916A4CE for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:17:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9B1143D48 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:17:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iAUKI5cF008105; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:18:05 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id iAUKI5iE008104; Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:18:05 -0800 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:18:05 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Jerry McAllister Message-ID: <20041130201804.GB1335@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <200411301145.29136.fcash@sd73.bc.ca> <200411301957.iAUJvkc29629@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="MW5yreqqjyrRcusr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200411301957.iAUJvkc29629@clunix.cl.msu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org cc: Freddie Cash Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:17:11 -0000 --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:57:08PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >=20 > > On November 30, 2004 11:10 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Why is this such a big deal?? > >=20 > > > No big deal. > > > Sounds like you now have something to keep you busy over the > > > holidays. When you get it all working, just submit it as a pr. There > > > are instructions for submitting a change on the FreeBSD web site. > >=20 > > > That's the way things work in the open source freeware community. > >=20 > > It looks like Scott Long is doing something similar for -CURRENT. > >=20 > > I don't know any forth, but I might be able to hack something up as=20 > > proof-of-concept kind of thingy. It can't really be all that hard can= =20 > > it? :) >=20 > The biggest problem might be having room for it in the place it > must run. If it doesn't need to use/modify the boot block, then it > should be easy. There's essentially unlimited memory/storage once you're in the loader. Obviously, people would probably object if you had 10MB of forth code, but you've got a file system and access to all of physical memory. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBrNV8XY6L6fI4GtQRAqriAJ0dkJfN1N9tK7NPk8l5pZMNDOtp9QCeN3tP hkdGQS+JdGXnr+EiWyYkvaE= =qZnU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr--