Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:18:05 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Freddie Cash <fcash@sd73.bc.ca> Subject: Re: misc/70231: Beastie not by default Message-ID: <20041130201804.GB1335@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <200411301957.iAUJvkc29629@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <200411301145.29136.fcash@sd73.bc.ca> <200411301957.iAUJvkc29629@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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--MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 02:57:08PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >=20 > > On November 30, 2004 11:10 am, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > Why is this such a big deal?? > >=20 > > > No big deal. > > > Sounds like you now have something to keep you busy over the > > > holidays. When you get it all working, just submit it as a pr. There > > > are instructions for submitting a change on the FreeBSD web site. > >=20 > > > That's the way things work in the open source freeware community. > >=20 > > It looks like Scott Long is doing something similar for -CURRENT. > >=20 > > I don't know any forth, but I might be able to hack something up as=20 > > proof-of-concept kind of thingy. It can't really be all that hard can= =20 > > it? :) >=20 > The biggest problem might be having room for it in the place it > must run. If it doesn't need to use/modify the boot block, then it > should be easy. There's essentially unlimited memory/storage once you're in the loader. Obviously, people would probably object if you had 10MB of forth code, but you've got a file system and access to all of physical memory. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBrNV8XY6L6fI4GtQRAqriAJ0dkJfN1N9tK7NPk8l5pZMNDOtp9QCeN3tP hkdGQS+JdGXnr+EiWyYkvaE= =qZnU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --MW5yreqqjyrRcusr--
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