From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 16:58:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA16993 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:58:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA16988 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:58:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA25538; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:37:57 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602020107.LAA25538@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Watchdog timers (was: Re: Multi-Port Async Cards) To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 11:37:57 +1030 (CST) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, dgy@rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602012052.OAA09429@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Feb 1, 96 02:52:11 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Joe Greco stands accused of saying: > > Well, the one feature I miss from this is this: > > Add (BIOS-extension) Eprom which redirects all output to the > > screen so that it can be used on a remote console too. (Think > > "bios-setup" here...) > > Yes, I agree, but I have no idea whether this is do-able, feasible, or even > possible. I'd certainly like that though. Serial video card 8) I don't know whether the BIOS makes assumtions about 6845 CRTC registers or not that early. There's obviously a ROM scan first though (note the video BIOS signs on before the main BIOS). Anyone out there ever written a video BIOS? > ... JG -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "wherever you go, there you are" - Buckaroo Banzai [[