From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 16: 7: 1 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6803437B807 for ; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 16:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p21-dn01kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.22]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id IAA07128; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:06:48 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <394E9D77.7E8D3060@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 07:23:51 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Parag Patel Cc: Ronald G Minnich , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. References: <66205.961453079@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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