Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:38:35 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <200009201638.e8KGcZG16646@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:54:38 PDT." <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009200853490.3071-100000@zeppo.feral.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009200853490.3071-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
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In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009200853490.3071-100000@zeppo.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes: : > IMO, the kernel shouldn't assume anything about the environment except : > whatever is needed to bootstrap (the pc initialized to put to boot : > code in the kernel, and the stack initialized or interrupts disabled). : > The loader shouldn't know anything about executable formats. It should : > loader should copy a file from the disk and jump to the appropriate entry : > point. : : We're outnumbered here, Bruce. The young turks have pulled a foolish MicroSoft : like move on us. We'd better hang it up......:-) Since you and Bruce have been arguing the same things I would, I've been keeping out of this. If you are looking for a "silent majority" :-) Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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