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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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