From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 20 9:38:38 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1D137B422; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 09:38:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA00730; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:38:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.0/8.8.3) with ESMTP id e8KGcZG16646; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:38:35 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200009201638.e8KGcZG16646@billy-club.village.org> To: mjacob@feral.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Cc: Bruce Evans , Peter Wemm , Doug Rabson , "Matthew N. Dodd" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:54:38 PDT." References: Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:38:35 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message 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