From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 15 18:45:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mg137-048.ricochet.net [204.179.137.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CAA37BA5B; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:45:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA01392; Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:49:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200006160149.SAA01392@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Parag Patel Cc: Mike Smith , Ronald G Minnich , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:38:12 PDT." <73280.961119492@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:49:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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