From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 9 07:49:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA00748 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:49:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA00621 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:49:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.1/8.8.8) id PAA31626; Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:08:04 GMT (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 15:08:04 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Robert Nordier Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New boot blocks + serial hardware handshaking? Message-ID: <19990209150804.H83748@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19990118151749.A68260@florence.pavilion.net> <199901181739.TAA04407@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901181739.TAA04407@ceia.nordier.com>; from Robert Nordier on Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:39:06PM +0200 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-1273-607072 Fax: +44-1273-607073 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 07:39:06PM +0200, Robert Nordier wrote: > Josef Karthauser wrote: > > As the one who did the actual coding, I can confirm that the approach > adopted in both the new bootblocks and the boot loader is virtually > identical to that used in the older (biosboot) bootblocks. In all > cases, the simplest approach giving the smallest code sizes was > used, so there's very little difference between the three sets of > routines. > > The above applies to 3.0-current. In 3.0-release, the boot loader > was still using BIOS routines (with hardware handshaking), but this > was changed around late November 1998. I've now confirmed this. The problems that we saw in October have indeed been fixed. Thanks, Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message