Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:51:08 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <26377.961141868@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:37:51 PDT." <200006160137.SAA01345@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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>> The key is that freebsd may need to change a few things to make it >> bootable from cold hardware. I don't think this is for sure, but it may >> happen. I hope the team is receptive to such changes ... > >ie. "LinuxBIOS won't initialise the system correctly, so you'd better >clean up after it"? How is the microcode loading handled in LinuxBIOS ? As far as I know getting hold of the microcode-supplemental data from Intel is a process which is (impossible - epsilon) and certainly not open source compatible ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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