Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include/pc bios.h src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c Message-ID: <20040604101725.X50992@root.org> In-Reply-To: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, 4 Jun 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040603160405.E45592@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: > > >Many BIOS strings have alignment requirements. That might be useful to > >add. > > Once we need it we'll know what to add. Adding it now without any code > which needs it would violate the third X11 principle: > > 3.The only thing worse than generalizing from one example > is generalizing from no examples at all. sys/i386/libi386/biosacpi.c And all ACPI tables must be 16-byte aligned. -Nate
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