On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, bsdusr@gmail.com wrote:
> > rest of the kernel uses it to store the value of curlwp. Sam won't

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> > recompile the HAL for us (fair enough), and we can't modify the HAL

> > to use another register because doing so could put us in breach of

> > the license (v. crappy). So, do a save/set/restore on %s7 in KernIntr()

>

> How hard is it to recompile the HAL that Sam can't be bothered to do

> it, and more importantly, why should a trivial change to make the

> software inter operable be a breach of the license?  That can't be the

> owner's intent.

Why are you making excuses for the people who provide binary blobs? It

doesn't matter at all what the owner's _intent_ is, when the practical

consequence is that OS developers have to put in layers of hacks for

bugs that they cannot themselves fix.
-d