From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 3 13:19:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11861 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:19:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA11856 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:19:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA00471; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811032118.NAA00471@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Marius Bendiksen cc: Mike Smith , Peter Jeremy , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot loader and alternate kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Nov 1998 16:16:46 +0100." <3.0.5.32.19981103161646.0097a780@mail.scancall.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:18:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >There would be little trouble including the FICL Forth engine in the > >kernel; I had actually considered the not insubstantial advantages to > >doing this (most importantly the ability to attach Forth to modules to > >do specialised load/unload operations), but I suspect that this will be > >viewed too much like heresy by many people. > > Anything that helps increase flexibility is good, if it doesn't bring > excessive bloat with it. From what I've heard so far, this would be a good > idea. Alternately, might it not be possible to add an option for it? Making it optional would make it worthless; if it's to be useful for anything it needs to be a standard component. I'm by no means sure that it should. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message