From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 25 23:38:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08470 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:38:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08457 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:38:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA22990; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:37:02 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802260737.XAA22990@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com cc: jjw@us.net, danj@3skel.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:33:45 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:37:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Cisco has it easy, the PROM is exact for the box it's in, vastly > > minimizing the array 'kernel' services. BTW, doesn't the Cisco come > > with a pre-burned PC-Card memory mard that has all the IOS stuff > > on it? We are not talking about loading system software, with > > Cisco we are merely talking about configuring it, aren't we? > > > By the way, did someone tried to load FreeBSD from ROM ? Something > like Flash ROM card installed into a box through some adapter ? I've booted FreeBSD off a BIOS-level floppy emulation implemented with FLASH memory. What would be much sexier would be XIP out of flash, but that involves some slightly funky hardware and/or magic to make the kernel handle different load addresses. There are quite a few nasty assumptions that would break. -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message