Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933051AbXIAXGD (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:06:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755745AbXIAXFw (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:05:52 -0400 Received: from barikada.upol.cz ([158.194.242.200]:45633 "EHLO barikada.upol.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755714AbXIAXFw (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:05:52 -0400 To: Al Viro Cc: david@lang.hm, Alan , Kyle Moffett , Marc Perkel , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Michael Tharp , LKML Kernel , Lennart Sorensen Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems In-Reply-To: <20070819025758.GR21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> References: <763705.7247.qm@web52512.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <1187479581.1608.1.camel@zowie.fnordora.org> <20070819025758.GR21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:20:49 +0200 Message-Id: From: Oleg Verych Organization: Palacky University in Olomouc, experimental physics department X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-glibc-debian Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 651 Lines: 18 * Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:57:58 +0100 >> don't forget the ACPI interpreter. > > YAProof that bogons follow Boze statistics... or bugons, then. Why big minds didn't do rdev-like binary patching of the kernel image with binary ACPI data? Getting such data in (any) userspace would be the only thing in the install process of a modern distro, otherwise it's just a boring decompressing with copying. ____ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/