From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 5 21:28:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp018.mail.yahoo.com (smtp018.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7000D37B406 for ; Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mkc-65-31-219-45.kc.rr.com (HELO yahoo.com) (65.31.219.45) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2001 04:28:26 -0000 X-Apparently-From: Message-ID: <3B96FB69.4000104@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 23:28:25 -0500 From: Jim Bryant Reply-To: kc5vdj@yahoo.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Dave Cornejo , Poul-Henning Kamp , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ACPI CHANGES AFFECTING MOST -CURRENT USERS References: <200109060010.f860A8M46067@white.dogwood.com> <3B96D06B.3030908@yahoo.com> <3B96D48F.8030105@yahoo.com> <20010905203344.A82981@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:42:39PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: > > >>I doubt if the bootloader will ever change from FORTH, but if it >>does, I suggest LISP as the preferred choice on a short-list of >>potential replacements. >> > > Show us a suitable LISP interpreter, then. > > Kris Been a while since I looked around, and I do think that any suitable interpreter would have to be modified to suit the task of bootloading much better than a generic LISP can, even emacs had to modify LISP for their purposes, but sure, I'll do some looking around for candidates. jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! -------------------------------------------- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message