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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] vm ongoing woes
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:09:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=6wg1CsAW+BLjXmYDbJ0T8-TV8SA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.OSX.2.00.1106221738100.16062@haldir.orthanc.ca>

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> But speaking of annoyed, have you done any DSDT rewrites to get gear going?
> From what I've seen of EFI it seems like it's just an excuse to rewrite all
> the fucked up ACPI tables they (read: intel) got wrong the first time
> around. sigh.
>
>

oh no. EFI is much worse than that. It's an operating system written
by people who never understood the lessons learned by Unix in 1970.
I'm not kidding.

ron



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-23 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-23  0:29 Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:36   ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23  0:37     ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:40   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  0:46     ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23 15:09     ` ron minnich [this message]
2011-06-23 15:12       ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23 15:18       ` dexen deVries
2011-06-23 16:11         ` David Leimbach
2011-06-23  0:54 ` erik quanstrom
2011-06-23  1:11   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2011-06-23  1:13     ` erik quanstrom

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