From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Porting plan9
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 20:05:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca8116924583005a75347a3bf0e6b189@lilly.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141202040306.Horde.F9NrkN7urXV8lomBO7R6OA1@ssl.eumx.net>
On Mon Dec 1 20:00:59 PST 2014, khm@sciops.net wrote:
> Quoting Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com>:
>
> > Clearly you've never worked on hardware.
>
> No, thank Christ, my conscience is clean. Instead I work on
> software, and uboot is a fine example of "well it builds on my
> laptop" development paradigms. Plenty glad I don't have to
> screw with such nonsense any more, and even more glad the company
> I work for has got out of the habit of compensating for bad hw
> designs by spackling things over with "it builds, ship it" code.
while i don't agree that u-boot is nice, i do agree with steve's point,
which i understood to be that hardware is messy, and it's hard to write
software that isn't a tad messy to deal with this. steve has a lot of experience
with hardware, and knows what he's talking about.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-02 4:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-01 5:14 Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 5:44 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 8:43 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-01 14:13 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-01 21:54 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 0:30 ` Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan
2014-12-02 0:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 2:16 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 2:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2014-12-02 4:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 4:05 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2014-12-02 4:19 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-12-02 4:23 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 2:42 ` Bakul Shah
2014-12-02 3:31 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 2:43 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 9:32 ` Richard Miller
2014-12-02 10:12 ` Jens Staal
2014-12-02 10:48 ` mischief
2014-12-02 10:54 ` mischief
2014-12-02 14:10 ` erik quanstrom
2014-12-02 15:21 ` Steven Stallion
2014-12-02 21:57 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:02 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-02 22:28 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2014-12-02 22:55 ` Iruatã Souza
2014-12-03 0:20 ` yoann padioleau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-01-24 1:17 [9fans] porting plan9 forsyth
2002-01-24 19:13 ` Michael Grunditz
2002-01-24 0:45 jmk
2002-01-23 23:58 Michael Grunditz
2002-01-23 23:06 anothy
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