config language

[ron minnich]

On Tue, 20 May 2003 jarcher at pobox.com wrote:

> I may be going to far here, but what about the ability to define new 
> devices?  Or composite devices.
> 
>          define warpdisk
>                  cpu p3                  # Warp disk controller
>                  include vendor/warpdisk_driver.inc
>          end
> 
>          mainboard vendor/model
>                  cpu p5
>                  warpdisk
>                  ...config...
>          end
> 
> Also I don't know if the current structure allows options.
> 
>          superio vendor/model IDE2=0     # For setting #defines for this 
> included device.
>          warpdisk ID=0 MAXDISK=3
>          warpdisk ID=1 MAXDISK=2
> 
> Jordan

well, at what point are we going overboard? but we'll look at it. It's an 
interesting idea. 

There was a reason I made the original language so dumb ... :=) Once you 
make it a real language too many things are possible :-)

ron