From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 29 22:22:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7292737B401 for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:22:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F1943E4A for ; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:22:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0067.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.67] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18StJd-0005R8-00 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:22:22 -0800 Message-ID: <3E0FE5D0.A77F56B6@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:21:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: [FAQ] The Open Source Stackable PC BIOS (fwd)] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a40341897032c1397a7645eb1f88fbe8ad387f7b89c61deb1d350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Forwarded, per request of the author. Original email address on file. -- Terry Bruce M Simpson wrote: > > Terry, > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 08:04:12AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > "Ronald G. Minnich" wrote: > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > > I guess it's not OK to make BIOS calls into the BIOS? > > > > > > not if it's my lazy bios that doesn't support them. > > > > Actually, the interesting part would be a survey of which BIOS > > calls are actually used (a survey by a BIOS writer, maybe, hint > > hint 8-)). > > > > The real question is fail-safe on unimplemented BIOS calls, > > which should return a characteristic error. > > I have done this work. The results can be seen at: > > http://www.incunabulum.com/code/projects/freebsd/freebsd-bios-interaction.txt > > I have also rewritten boot0.s to use the BIOS COM Port Services (INT 14h): > > http://www.incunabulum.com/code/projects/freebsd/boot0sio.s > > Comments, suggestions, flames etc. to the usual address. > > P.S. The PTRs for this machine may be FUBAR, so if you could repost to > hackers@ I should be most grateful. > > yours, > BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message