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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:09:36 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        mjacob@feral.com, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>, "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c
Message-ID:  <20000920190936.A27439@warning.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <200009201638.e8KGcZG16646@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:38:35AM -0600
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009200853490.3071-100000@zeppo.feral.com> <200009201638.e8KGcZG16646@billy-club.village.org>

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On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 10:38:35AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009200853490.3071-100000@zeppo.feral.com> Matthew Jacob writes:
> : > IMO, the kernel shouldn't assume anything about the environment except
> : > whatever is needed to bootstrap (the pc initialized to put to boot
> : > code in the kernel, and the stack initialized or interrupts disabled).
> : > The loader shouldn't know anything about executable formats.  It should
> : > loader should copy a file from the disk and jump to the appropriate entry
> : > point.
> : 
> : We're outnumbered here, Bruce. The young turks have pulled a foolish MicroSoft
> : like move on us. We'd better hang it up......:-)
> 
> Since you and Bruce have been arguing the same things I would, I've
> been keeping out of this.  If you are looking for a "silent majority"
> :-)

AOL.

Eivind.


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