From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 3 22:51:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF23216A4CE; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B1543D41; Thu, 3 Jun 2004 22:51:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i545phGM014535; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 07:51:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@phk.freebsd.dk) To: Nate Lawson From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jun 2004 16:06:51 PDT." <20040603160405.E45592@root.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:51:43 +0200 Message-ID: <14534.1086328303@critter.freebsd.dk> cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/include/pc bios.h src/sys/i386/i386 bios.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 05:51:47 -0000 In message <20040603160405.E45592@root.org>, Nate Lawson writes: >Many BIOS strings have alignment requirements. That might be useful to >add. Once we need it we'll know what to add. Adding it now without any code which needs it would violate the third X11 principle: 3.The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all. >Is all of BIOS mapped into kernel memory or should this operate on >physical addresses instead? Yes, the entire BIOS is mapped as far as I know. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.