From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 5 23:33:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA16459 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:33:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA16454 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 23:33:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.dk.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vh9Xf-0003vyC; Sun, 5 Jan 97 23:32 PST Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (critter-home [193.162.32.19]) by schizo.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA00416; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:32:14 +0100 (MET) Received: from critter.dk.tfs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.dk.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id IAA04035; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 08:35:46 +0100 (MET) To: Michael Smith cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul), jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel w/o source? [MOD_DECL in lkm.h] In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jan 1997 16:32:56 +1030." <199701060602.QAA29343@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 08:35:46 +0100 Message-ID: <4033.852536146@critter.dk.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199701060602.QAA29343@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Michael Smith writes: >Bill Paul stands accused of saying: >> >> That said, what would make this problem (and probably some others) go >> away is a BIOS-based disk driver, but we've discussed this already and >> the problems involved in doing something like this haven't yet been >> solved. (Talked about to death, yes, but not solved.) Getting the kernel >> to switch to real mode to use the BIOS and then back again is tantamount >> to turning lead into gold, and nobody seems to be in a hurry to implement >> vm86 support. (Then again, I'm not even sure that vm86 mode alone is >> enough to do it.) > >Do I need to beat the "why we have no vm86 support yet" gong again? If >anyone thinks it'll help, I will 8) Sure go ahead, beat it as much as you want! But would mind doing it outside this time ? :-) vm86 support would benefit mostly owners of Compaq and other broken and/or undocumented hardware I belive, and quite frankly, that is not something that will ever even come close to my "doing for fun" timeslots. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.