From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 10:57:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A5F37B774 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:57:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from localhost (rminnich@localhost) by acl.lanl.gov (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA340448 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:57:30 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: acl.lanl.gov: rminnich owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:57:29 -0600 From: Ronald G Minnich To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? In-Reply-To: <93007.961175731@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Parag Patel wrote: > No-one else seems to be interested. actually, that's not quite true. we're seeing a fair amount of interest here. I suspect vendors are not that interested in supporting another BIOS unless/until they see potential $$$ ("value proposition" in MBA speak). We seem to have found a workable value proposition here. It won't cost them anything, and they get the results of our work on sourceforge.net, and there may be competitive advantage in the Linux market at some point. I think Parag's work is quite good but he has a tougher job than we do. but we'll see how it all plays out :-) ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message