Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:42:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: terry@lambert.org, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, phk@critter.tfs.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601050142.SAA00873@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199601050052.QAA03245@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Jan 4, 96 04:52:05 pm
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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. Exactly. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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