Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 16:52:05 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte), phk@critter.tfs.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601050052.QAA03245@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 16:56:27 MST." <199601042356.QAA00715@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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>> In our (=at a former 'work') most of the EISA mainboards only survive >> calling the EISA INT from things like DOS. The 32 bit equivalent in >> the BIOS most of the times simply crashed the Unix. I lost the details >> but I think counting on this to work is optimistic >> >> BTW we where using this to 'autoconfig' a ATT V.3 based system. You >> still had to do a kernel link but it was based on the info in the EISA >> config NVRAM. > >The point is to bypass the BIOS. The only non-computable information >is the size of the per slot CMOS area. That's what I meant. > Or use VM86 to do 16-bit calls into the EISA BIOS. > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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