From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 17 19:47:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA05047 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:47:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA05035 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:47:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA04973; Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:08:18 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601180338.OAA04973@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Building a "custom" release of 2.1.0 To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 14:08:17 +1030 (CST) Cc: trangmar@gnsnet.com, langfod@maui.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, phk@critter.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601171934.MAA03103@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 17, 96 12:34:26 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > The limitation on boot-critical devices comes because there is no > VM86() "fallback" drivers using BIOS calls to do a minimal job (all > boot critical devices have BIOS hooking POST routines, or they are > unusable for DOS). Speaking of which, where's our step-by-step list of what else has to happen before we can do vm86()? > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[