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From: Jonas Nagel <fireball@zerouptime.ch>
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Subject: Re: i386/118350: [hang] BTX loader hangs on PC Engines WRAP
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> >  Then again, I heard the OpenBSD BTX is much more reliable than the
> >  FreeBSD one...
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Well, perhaps port it to FreeBSD so that we can see whether that
> also works on FreeBSD and gives the flexibility and usefulness
> that we have :-)

Please note that this was not supposed to be a general rant, but rather
a notice to the fact that in the other link I was given, in the other
reply, the bug in the older BIOS was discovered using the OpenBSD BTX
loader.

Cheers,
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Jonas Nagel <fireball@zerouptime.ch>
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