From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 10 13:57:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13693 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:57:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (daemon@smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13653 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:57:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA15439; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:56:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd015415; Wed Jun 10 13:56:47 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA11167; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:56:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199806102056.NAA11167@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: PnP BIOS To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:56:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199806101755.LAA04506@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 10, 98 11:55:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > : This is basically enough information that, were it implemented, you > : *should* be able to boot FreeBSD or Linux -- under FreeBSD. > > Would this open the door to using WinNT/Win95 32 bit drivers in the > FreeBSD kernel? Or is that too evil a thought to even consider... It's part of it. The other parts of it are emulating the VxD's expected environment, including use of ELF, honoring section attribution, formalizing virtual interrupts for top/bottom processing (mostly there), and supporting kernel paging. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message