From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 21 16:35:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA28613 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:35:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA28600 for ; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 16:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA00958; Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:39:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199810212339.JAA00958@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: BIOS extension format In-Reply-To: <199810212328.QAA02805@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Oct 21, 98 04:28:11 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 09:39:14 +1000 (EST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] 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 Mike Smith wrote: > Best guess is it's the format described in the PnP BIOS document, where > the image starts with: [...] > There's more specific information here on PnP devices intented to > participate in the boot path (disk, screen, keyboard etc.) if this is > looking promising. Thanks Mike. At first look, the extensions look like they're in that format. > The document you want is "Plug and Play BIOS Specification" (version > 1.0A); you should be able to get it from Microsoft under > http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/respect/pnpspecs.htm > in Word format (*sigh*). I'll go look at that. Urk, I guess that means I have to boot Windows. I hope I can still remember how to do that. 8-) -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message