From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 20 10:12:12 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from warning.follo.net (warning.follo.net [195.204.136.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5416E37B424; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 10:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by warning.follo.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA28463; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:09:36 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:09:36 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Warner Losh Cc: mjacob@feral.com, Bruce Evans , Peter Wemm , Doug Rabson , "Matthew N. Dodd" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c Message-ID: <20000920190936.A27439@warning.follo.net> References: <200009201638.e8KGcZG16646@billy-club.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200009201638.e8KGcZG16646@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:38:35AM -0600 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:38:35AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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" > :-) AOL. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message