From owner-freebsd-small Sat May 23 21:24:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04660 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Sat, 23 May 1998 21:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles167.castles.com [208.214.165.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04654 for ; Sat, 23 May 1998 21:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA02593; Sat, 23 May 1998 15:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805232233.PAA02593@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Julian Elischer cc: Marc Nicholas , Mike Smith , freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIOS bootstrap? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 May 1998 14:09:35 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 15:33:34 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > That's what we do on the Interjet. > We altered our BIOS to use com2 as it's POST output. > That way it goes to the LCD. If you have BIOS source, that's always good. > Does anyone know if there is a FreeBIOS project anywhere? Ask AltaVista about "openbios", but be aware that they appear to be totally clueless. Apart from that, I don't believe so, no. Writing a complete, up-to-date BIOS is a nontrivial exercise, and you have to be tied closely to the board you run on in many ways. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message