From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 16:07:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A5416A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:07:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E050143D2D for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:07:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18D92A8D5 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66099E2B3 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:07:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i8HG7Ixo097778; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i8HG7Im8097777; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: Francois Tigeot Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:07:18 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040914150419.GA7191@aoi.wolfpond.org> <200409141543.13318.peter@wemm.org> <20040915063512.GA10104@aoi.wolfpond.org> In-Reply-To: <20040915063512.GA10104@aoi.wolfpond.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409170907.18458.peter@wemm.org> cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bios.h question X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:07:26 -0000 On Tuesday 14 September 2004 11:35 pm, Francois Tigeot wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 03:43:13PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > > On Tuesday 14 September 2004 08:04 am, Francois Tigeot wrote: > > > I'm running 5.3-BETA4 and I can't find even > > > though bios(9) exists. > > > It seems bios.h is only present on the i386 and alpha > > > architectures. > > > > > > Is this normal on amd64 ? If yes, I would appreciate if someone > > > could point me to an alternative to bios_sigsearch() > > > > We dont even have bios_sigsearch() - all the consumers in the > > kernel were related to vm86()/bios16()/bios32() calls, which are > > impossible in our kernel. > > This puzzles me, as the functions seem to be present on alpha. No, they are not.. The prototypes are there due to over-merging and lack of cleanup, but there are no implementations for the functions. > > What do you need it for? It might be ok to revive a subset of it, > > but it would be useful to know what that file is being used for > > first, so we know which subsets are needed. > > I am experimenting with Bruno Ducrot's powernow_k7 and need to read > some tables in BIOS memory area. Ahh - bios tables. That we can do. This is for a kernel component, right? > I will try to see if there is a way to do the same thing via acpi > instead... -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5