Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:26:58 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Message-ID: <20000620182658.C52814@pavilion.net> In-Reply-To: <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600 References: <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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... On my vaio it's a separate partition on the disk of type 160 (which partition magic calls "save to disk"). Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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