From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 15:25: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F51D37B859 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:25:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA176492 for ; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:25:00 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:24:59 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? In-Reply-To: <39495511.3B7E5658@bellatlantic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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