Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:29:18 -0400 From: Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net> To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>, Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <20000609172917.A26459@netmonger.net> In-Reply-To: <394125FB.964917F7@vangelderen.org>; from Jeroen C. van Gelderen on Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400 References: <200006091527.e59FRYb10540@lor.watermarkgroup.com> <394125FB.964917F7@vangelderen.org>
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 01:14:35PM -0400, Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: > I'm not sure it is a good idea to name this variable VMWare as > that is implementation specific. It may be better to have a var > named 'emulation' set to 'none' or 'vmware' or 'bochs' or ... Mmm.. or, giving forth the ability to do in/out instructions, so the non-generic code would be entirely in the add-on forth piece. I'm not sure if there are any security implications there.. at boot time the machine is essentially as single-user as it's ever going to be. -- Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications chris@netmonger.net info@netmonger.net http://www.netmonger.net Free yourself, free your machine, free the daemon -- http://www.freebsd.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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