5 Feb
2002
5 Feb
'02
6:18 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Justin C. Walker wrote:
On Tuesday, February 5, 2002, at 05:38 PM, David A. Gatwood wrote:
On the macs, they quiesce the OF, which means that you can't use OF
drivers in the kernel. I can only think of one OS that doesn't do this
(NetBSD). It's just a lot of effort to keep OF around.
And, of course, Solaris, where OF was first perpetrated on an
unsuspecting world.
Sorry, should have been more clear. I meant to say that I can only think of one OS that doesn't do this on the Mac/PPC platform. :-) David --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my weekly web comic: http://www.techmagazine.org