linux-kernel - Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

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Message-Id: <E1IRcGn-0005iv-Cj@flower>
Date:	Sun, 2 Sep 2007 01:20:49 +0200
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	david@...g.hm, Alan <alan@...eserver.org>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Marc Perkel <mperkel@...oo.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	Michael Tharp <gxti@...tiallystapled.com>,
	LKML Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Re: Thinking outside the box on file systems

* 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.
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