From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 07:25:27 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 656E216A417 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:25:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordbyte@esperanza.rebooten.de) Received: from esperanza.rebooten.de (esperanza.rebooten.de [83.136.81.141]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 023F413C428 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lordbyte@esperanza.rebooten.de) Received: from esperanza.rebooten.de (esperanza.rebooten.de [83.136.81.141]) by esperanza.rebooten.de (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6Q75pAg071443; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:05:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lordbyte@esperanza.rebooten.de) Received: (from lordbyte@localhost) by esperanza.rebooten.de (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l6Q75pX6071442; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:05:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from lordbyte) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:05:51 +0200 From: Markus Boelter To: George Hartzell Message-ID: <20070726070551.GO21011@rebooten.de> References: <18087.41034.817186.693348@almost.alerce.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18087.41034.817186.693348@almost.alerce.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Original-Status: RO Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on intel Mac X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:25:27 -0000 Hi! > Boot Camp seems to be a marketing term, I still haven't figured out > what various people mean when they use the term. Is it the assistant? > The windows driver CD? As far as I know, Boot Camp places also some code as EFI payload (hopefully this is the right term) that implements some BIOS calls and BIOS interrupts that software like Windows uses during its boot process. Vven WinXP still uses some of the 16 Bit BIOS calls during startup. Of course is Boot Camp also a set of drivers for various hardware for the Macs and also the assistent. Cheers! Markus -- Markus Boelter