From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 09:33:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA27619 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:33:49 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA27612; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:33:44 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id JAA01283; Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:33:07 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503211733.JAA01283@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: SVNET Meeting? To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 09:33:07 -0800 (PST) Cc: gibbs@estienne.CS.Berkeley.EDU, peter@bonkers.taronga.com, bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com In-Reply-To: <199503211316.XAA15950@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 21, 95 11:16:25 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1087 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >Oh man.... Hmmm... The firmware is < 2k. Its basically an array of > >byte values that the driver dumps to the card. The current setup > >is the best setup except that it contaminates the GENERIC kernel > >(ie, if someone decides its okay for them to use this driver, it works > >without haveing to do anything special on their part except configure > >for the controller.) If you can think of a way for the driver to > >read in an additional file during boot, then we can distribute the > >firmware separately. > > There will have to be a another stage in the boot for 2.1. This > is not hard to implement, except for the dosboot and possibly the > netboot. The dosboot and the netboot are already out of date. > The netboot lacks support for BIOS drive geometries (which is > essential for correct operation of fdisk and sysinstall) and both > lack support for BIOS memory sizes. Say what ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'