From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 19 20:35:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCC5A37B544; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:35:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA37465; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:35:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id VAA65167; Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:34:01 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Cc: acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:35:33 PDT." <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:34:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: : Can we guarantee that we can find this area? On eg. the Dell i7500 that : I've been playing most with, it's a file on a FAT filesystem, and the : BIOS will only "find" it if the filesystem is in the 'active' partition : at boot time. Generally we cannot guarnatee that. IIRC, there's lots of variation. Usually it is just a partition, but sometimes it is the last N cylenders of the disk, and sometimes it is a file like you say. It would at the very least need to be configured... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message