From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 14:27:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D0716A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:27:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B367D43D1D for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:27:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:27:42 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id A30715D08; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 14:27:41 -0700 (PDT) To: Nathan Seven In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:17:07 PDT." <20040409211707.81641.qmail@web13906.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 14:27:41 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20040409212741.A30715D08@ptavv.es.net> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: avleeuwen@piwebs.com cc: Atte Peltomaki Subject: Re: Future of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 21:27:43 -0000 Many newer systems use ACPI for PCI configuration and interrupt routing. Without these functions, you don't have a bootable system. Thee was a post earlier today mentioning that the new ASUS P4 mobo requires ACPI to boot. I suspect that this is rapidly becoming the norm for new motherboard BIOS implementations. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634