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Date:      Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:23:40 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        aaron <aaron@meta.lo-res.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: openbios
Message-ID:  <20010828142339.A61193@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108282317240.51413-100000@meta.lo-res.org>; from aaron@meta.lo-res.org on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:21:38PM %2B0200
References:  <20010828161038.N81307@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108282317240.51413-100000@meta.lo-res.org>

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On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:21:38PM +0200, aaron wrote:

> yes, but AFAIK they will replace standard BIOS calls with their own
> abstraction layer/calls. Now if fbsd uses some "well known" BIOS calls
> which differ in the openbios abstraction layer then it wont run. so the
> question boils down to: is there some black magic bios call accessing code
> in the kernel somewhere (which might break then)?

I think the bottom line is that if you want FreeBSD to work optimally
with this thing, the burden is on you to help make it so.

Kris

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