Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:27:42 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <200006200327.UAA02379@john.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000618215012.C26249@cokane.yi.org>
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On 19-Jun-00 Coleman Kane wrote: > If you start out with a board based on a reference design, say the Intel > SE440BX, you already have access to all this info. Most chipset vendors have > info on this sort of thing up on their webpage, I know intel is really good > about this sort of thing (though I am not so sure about the 810/815/820/840 > chipsets). Not the chipset, all the hardware like the PIC's, the RTC, the CPU fan, the keyboard controller, etc. etc. ad nauseum. Go back earlier in the thread and read some of the AML Mike posted that has to be done just to turn the CPU fan on. > Mike Smith had the audacity to say: >> >> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: >> > > >> > >Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive >> > >that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so >> > >he can load from that to. >> > >> > My mistake, as Ron pointed out, since loader uses the BIOS services, it >> > can't run when there is no BIOS. Now if someone writes a loader that >> > doesn't use a BIOS... >> >> You could easily do this, just as soon as you find a motherboard vendor >> that will tell you how to initialise all their hardware. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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