On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > rest of the kernel uses it to store the value of curlwp. Sam won't > > 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
