Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:17:38 -0500 From: Joshua Isom <jrisom@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: none Message-ID: <516879F2.9050003@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130412144341.0362e296@scorpio> References: <20130412105044.DGJ71030@ms5.mc.surewest.net> <447gk7aahp.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20130412144341.0362e296@scorpio>
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On 4/12/2013 1:43 PM, Jerry wrote: > Really off-topic, but HAL is now deprecated on many modern systems. Why > is FreeBSD continuing to use it? It is being replaced by "udev". You > would think that FreeBSD-10 would be a perfect time to put HAL to bed > and take a more modern approach. > It's not the gnu hal/dbus/bloat, it's an Atheros hardware abstraction layer. It's not really that much different than using VFS for file systems instead of going straight to disk.
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