From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 3:16:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F0237BC3F for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 03:16:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 133ybI-000Gnl-00; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:16:16 +0200 Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:16:16 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: Jung-uk Kim , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Message-ID: <20000619121616.A64383@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000619114515.A64102@mithrandr.moria.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000619114515.A64102@mithrandr.moria.org>; from nbm@mithrandr.moria.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:45:15AM +0200 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon 2000-06-19 (11:45), Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > 'linuxbios' will only support booting off Linux partitions? > > I doubt they're replacing a multi-purpose, occasionally > not-all-that-clever thing, with a single-purpose very-often > not-all-that-clever thing? Ah wait, having read a bit more, they are. Good luck to them. I would have thought that redo-ing the entire BIOS would be a bit extreme. A 'simpler' serial console video/keyboard interaction firmware chip would have been nice. If you really want to be funky, add in network support for TCP/IP-based BIOS interaction. Otherwise, for the five-nines, replacing the whole BIOS is extreme. (says he, wondering why malfunctioning hardware tends to make his brain malfunction) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message