From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jun 22 12:37:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 918AA37B73D; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:37:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA51730; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:37:21 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id NAA91615; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:35:45 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200006221935.NAA91615@harmony.village.org> To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:30:19 PDT." <200006221930.MAA00940@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200006221930.MAA00940@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:35:45 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <200006221930.MAA00940@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: : As far as the loader is concerned, though, neither of these are on the : boot path, so we can typically wait until the kernel's up and we can use : some "real real" drivers. 8) Well, I have seen boards that support booting off pccard devices... But I think they make them look like normal BIOS disk devices just like the DOC2k chips do. And the boot support is somewhat limited as to which devices (usually only ATA cards and sometimes linear flash). I'll not worry about it for now. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message