From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 18 18:43:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from evil.2y.net (ztown1-3-8.adsl.one.net [216.23.21.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F159D37BB21; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:43:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@evil.2y.net) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by evil.2y.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA26332; Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:50:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:50:12 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: Mike Smith Cc: Parag Patel , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd bios. Message-ID: <20000618215012.C26249@cokane.yi.org> References: <33557.961352296@pinhead.parag.codegen.com> <200006182336.QAA05452@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006182336.QAA05452@mass.osd.bsdi.com>; from msmith@freebsd.org on Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 07:32:31PM -0400 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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