From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 28 14:23:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-54.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C67D37B407 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 19FAA66D2A; Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:23:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 14:23:40 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: aaron Cc: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openbios Message-ID: <20010828142339.A61193@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010828161038.N81307@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from aaron@meta.lo-res.org on Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:21:38PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7jAvbWry0BWjoQKURAon7AKDN88YViV5SXSMPF66oW3tOuH0LJACgwABg 0P3pE3QqBPc7pB3FeeUVDH4= =2Nt1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message