Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 22:04:24 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates ffs_softdep.c src/sy Message-ID: <83336.947711064@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:01:34 MST." <200001122101.OAA16486@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200001122101.OAA16486@harmony.village.org>, Warner Losh writes:
>In message <200001121911.LAA57020@rah.star-gate.com> Amancio Hasty writes:
>: No need to get that fancy and besides such language will probably
>: be too complicated to the describe . I would just have the X server load
>: a kernel module with the given code and state variables so that another
>: kernel module can restore the graphics context .
>
>That is one way. The language idea wouldn't be too bad if it was in
>ACPI's binary language, since tools exist to create that and interpret
>that once we have ACPI in the kernel...
I belive OS/2 already ha{d|ve} a script language for this. Check any
video driver floppy for a moderately advanced graphics card.
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