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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2000 14:47:32 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
Cc:        Jung-uk Kim <juikim@engin.umd.umich.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? 
Message-ID:  <200006152147.OAA00521@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:25:40 MDT." <Pine.SGI.4.10.10006151523550.166103-100000@acl.lanl.gov> 

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> well linuxbios is what I started here, and I pinged some folks on this
> list about supporting freebsd as well as linux, and got a 'no interest'
> back from some folks. 
> 
> I'm still up for it. I think it's easy.

I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted about three 
months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly 
well-documented board.  Parag is nobody's fool, and I consider his 
results pretty representative of the issue.

-- 
\\ 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




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