Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:24:59 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.10.10006151622481.175399-100000@acl.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <39495511.3B7E5658@bellatlantic.net>
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On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Sergey Babkin wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. I just mentioned to mike that parag has been talking to me for the last while, and in fact is encouraged enough by recent results that he's taking another look. > Maybe I'm completely mistunderstanding the subject, but > what about EFI (Extendable Firmware Interface) ? It's the We're looking at it. Do you really believe in reference implementations? I don't. I sure hope they've stopped zeroing memory on reset ... this is one of the drivers for linuxbios. But it is still interesting. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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