From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 2:15:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EF0C37B401 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E733E43E6A for ; Wed, 25 Sep 2002 02:15:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 22041 invoked by uid 1031); 25 Sep 2002 09:12:06 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:12:06 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Ronald G Minnich Cc: Nate Lawson , Brooks Davis , Paolo Pisati , FreeBSD_Hackers Subject: Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =) Message-ID: <20020925091205.GK23343@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Ronald G Minnich , Nate Lawson , Brooks Davis , Paolo Pisati , FreeBSD_Hackers References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:46:03PM -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > or get freebsd loadable from linuxbios (http://www.linuxbios.org). We load > plan 9 and WinCE, so how much does freebsd need? Anyone looked at OpenBIOS? The line has to be drawn somewhere... as regards supporting multiple chipsets/CPUs. Personally I like the idea of being able to do PXE-like booting on non-Intel platforms. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message