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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