Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:40:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: dcs@newsguy.com, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Message-ID: <200006131540.e5DFekh04320@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> Given the way VMware works, I'd have nothing against making it a FICL > words, except... > > ...VMware is a port. For some reason, I dislike the idea of having > support targetted at exclusively one specific port. Though we have > features added specifically to deal with certain ports, they were all > more generic features. > I'm quite reluctant to add the ficl word myself. Ideally, we should not need to know which platform we're running on, be it a dell, a gateway or a software emulation like vmware. The problem is our inability to have a single kernel to boot an UP and a SMP machine, once we've solved this problem, I would remove this ficl word. I see this as a temporary solution to a specific problem, I don't want to generalize this into a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying hardware configuration. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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