Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:49:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <200006160149.SAA01392@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:38:12 PDT." <73280.961119492@pinhead.parag.codegen.com>
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> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:37:51 PDT, Mike Smith wrote: > > >ie. "LinuxBIOS won't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better > >clean up after it"? > > More like it ain't complete and is intended to boot Linux, so anything > that Linux initializes but FBSD doesn't is probably SOL. :) 8) Actually, the things that really bother me are eg. interrupt routing and the ACPI GPIO bits, since the former is board-specific and you *must* know about it to set PCI up, and the latter is often necessary to do important things like, eg. turn the CPU fan on. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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