From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 10:18:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D3B16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:18:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from root.org (root.org [67.118.192.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6133143D46 for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:18:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: (qmail 51003 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Jun 2004 17:18:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:18:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson To: Poul-Henning Kamp In-Reply-To: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk> Message-ID: <20040604101725.X50992@root.org> References: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include/pc bios.h src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:18:13 -0000 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