From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 19:57:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1154F14E37 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:57:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04357; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:04:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001120404.UAA04357@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: R Joseph Wright Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:40:53 PST." <387BF7C5.AA29A063@nwlink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:04:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > > No. If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really > > be fairly obvious. > > Sorry, I'm clueless 8). What does it do, exactly? Provides an abstract interface to a completely arbitrary hardware instance. Since there are no hardware standards at this level, you'd have to duplicate the unix-specific BIOS for every piece of hardware out there. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message