Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 16:10:38 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: aaron <aaron@meta.lo-res.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openbios Message-ID: <20010828161038.N81307@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108282237470.51170-100000@meta.lo-res.org>; from aaron@meta.lo-res.org on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:38:45PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108282237470.51170-100000@meta.lo-res.org>
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* aaron <aaron@meta.lo-res.org> [010828 15:37] wrote: > > Hi! > > I have been wondering if fbsd people would like to move into the > openbios.org direction? Well, at least I for myself would _dream_ of > booting my laptop and have X running in 10 seconds :)) > > I am asking because AFAIK the openbios guys replace the standard bios > calls with their own code (kernel, whatever). So would this acutally be > possible in fbsd? Are there any calls to bios routines or is everything > coded by hand? > > sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I was just to curious... I'm pretty sure openbios just aims to be a replacement for PC-BIOSes, as long as it's a drop in replacement FreeBSD should run just fine on top of it, there shouldn't be any modifications needed to be done to FreeBSD. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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