From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jul 15 23:15:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95A3137B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 370E943E42 for ; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0127.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.127] helo=mindspring.com) by hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17ULcb-0007V1-00; Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:15:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3D33B9D2.9D10EEDB@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 23:14:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Thorpe Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package system flaws? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Thorpe wrote: > On the topic of modularity, is an standard, official ABI for FreeBSD > planned? Are there plans for standardizing binary interfaces for kernel > modules. Would any of this (theoretical or actual) allow the kernel to be > updated relatively independently of the rest of the system? You're asking two different questions, neither of which have anything to do with the subject. 8-). Not that they shouldn't be addressed, but they should probably at least be *seperately* addressed (IMO). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message