From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 26 08:28:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03911 for current-outgoing; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 08:28:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA03906 for ; Sat, 26 Jul 1997 08:28:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id AAA28100; Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:57:42 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199707261527.AAA28100@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: pccard and -current; a long way to go. :-( In-Reply-To: <6019.869903071@critter.dk.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Jul 26, 97 09:44:31 am" To: phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:57:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hosokawa@jp.freebsd.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > As usual, if you start to fiddle this stuff, you hit your head on the > usual suspects: > > 1. Improved support for loadable devices. 'kn oath. Where is the ELF toolset at these days? What's the current feeling on linker set technology as it applies to loadable modules? What happened to Doug R's work on this too? > 2. Real mode BIOS calls. Well, we have someone claiming to be starting work on this. I've been pursuing an alternative, but I haven't had much luck getting standalone binaries running (yet). > 3. A Registry. You were talking about a method-based registry a while back; is this still the current "best-of' mechanism? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[