From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 21 13: 4:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5F837B695; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:04:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA46924; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:04:00 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA83024; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:02:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006212002.OAA83024@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Cc: Luoqi Chen , dcs@newsguy.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:10:59 PDT." <200006131710.KAA22395@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200006131710.KAA22395@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 14:02:26 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200006131710.KAA22395@mass.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: : > a larger issue. It is not the loader's job to detect the underlying : > hardware configuration. : : Actually, in a broad fashion, it _is_. This is why the loader : understands PCI and PnP, for example. How hard would it be to add usb and pccard support? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message