Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 07:23:51 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <394E9D77.7E8D3060@newsguy.com> References: <66205.961453079@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
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Parag Patel wrote: > > Well, it's more of a matter of putting the kernel itself into the boot > ROM with some small assembly/C code to turn on DRAM and an ungzipper to > load and run it. It's fairly simple, other than dealing with the > various motherboard/chipset vagaries. Ah, yes, I forgot about that part. Still evil, but better. :-) > Personally, I'd set it up to hold two kernel images - one for testing > and one for emergency recovery. If a bad kernel gets into the flash, > recovering will be ... painful. But there may not be enough room. Heh. :-) Yeah, that would be... desirable... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.great.underground.bsdconpiracy.org "He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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