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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:30:56 -0800
From:      Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
To:        "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca>
Cc:        Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD arm port 
Message-ID:  <199810292130.NAA18297@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>

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On Thu, 29 Oct 1998 16:20:10 -0500 
 "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca> wrote:

 > I was told that it wouldn't work natively because of the lack of
 > BIOS/RTC. Maybe they use the Angel PBL to load the image even if there's
 > no BIOS. I'll check it out later on tonight.

BIOS? What's that?  :-)

You have to have console firmware, yes.  That which loads the firmware
doesn't have enuf smarts to load the kernel.

Jason R. Thorpe                                       thorpej@nas.nasa.gov
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