Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:50:12 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Parag Patel <parag@cgt.com>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <20000618215012.C26249@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <200006182336.QAA05452@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 07:32:31PM -0400 References: <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <200006182336.QAA05452@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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If you start out with a board based on a reference design, say the Intel SE440BX, you already have access to all this info. Most chipset vendors have info on this sort of thing up on their webpage, I know intel is really good about this sort of thing (though I am not so sure about the 810/815/820/840 chipsets). Mike Smith had the audacity to say: > > > On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 07:35:51 +0900, "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > > > > >Loader(8) runs using BIOS services, and loads the kernel from any drive > > >that BIOS recognizes. It has also been enhanced with PXE knowledge, so > > >he can load from that to. > > > > My mistake, as Ron pointed out, since loader uses the BIOS services, it > > can't run when there is no BIOS. Now if someone writes a loader that > > doesn't use a BIOS... > > You could easily do this, just as soon as you find a motherboard vendor > that will tell you how to initialise all their hardware. > > -- > \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith > \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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