Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:22:56 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How good a job of PCI config will freebsd do? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0003291419580.2692-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <200003292101.NAA00799@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > Yeep. You don't know Fra Dolcini, do you? That looks like a Really > Unpleasant Undertaking. 8( It's getting there. Also SiS is now a supporter. Long term, we may see motherboards specifically designed for the OSS community, with real docs yet. Also, I can't see any way to get to 3-second reboot (one of the things we need) given the stupid way BIOSes work. PXE is not an answer. > cluster hardware over for a pile of IA64 boxes just yet, but it strikes > me that it'd be easier just to write a userland flash updater than to > rewrite the BIOS from scratch. 8) You haven't look at how intel designs and documents some of their motherboards, particularly the L440GX+. They won't tell people what they need to know to update flash on this one. Result: you have to boot DOS to upgrade flash. Stupid of them. Also, there are an amazing number of advantages to having a real OS in the flash. Once you start thinking about it, it becomes hard to live without. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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