From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 21 13:14:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl1.origin-it.com (gw-nl1.origin-it.com [193.79.128.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AED37B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.de.origin-it.com (localhost.origin-it.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl1.origin-it.com with ESMTP id WAA25496; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:13:40 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-de1.origin-it.com(172.16.188.53) by gw-nl1.origin-it.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma025494; Tue, 21 Nov 00 22:13:40 +0100 Received: from mailhub.de.origin-it.com (mailhub.de.origin-it.com [172.16.189.20]) by mail.de.origin-it.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with ESMTP id WAA09364; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:13:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from galaxy.de.cp.philips.com (galaxy.de.cp.philips.com [130.143.166.29]) by mailhub.de.origin-it.com (8.11.1/8.11.1/hmo23oct00) with ESMTP id eALLDYY31596; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:13:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Helge.Oldach@de.origin-it.com) Received: (from hmo@localhost) by galaxy.de.cp.philips.com (8.9.3/8.9.3/hmo14aug98) id WAA25921; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:13:33 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <200011212113.WAA25921@galaxy.de.cp.philips.com> Subject: Re: Dangerously Dedicated In-Reply-To: <200011210517.WAA08133@freeway.dcfinc.com> from "Chad R. Larson" at "Nov 20, 2000 10:17:18 pm" To: chad@DCFinc.com Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:13:32 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net, imp@village.org, bfoz@glue.umd.edu, Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, roelof@eboa.com From: Helge Oldach X-Address: Atos Origin, Billstrasse 80, D-20539 Hamburg, Germany X-Phone: +49 40 7886 464, Fax: +49 40 7886 235, Mobile: +49 172 4515513 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chad R. Larson: >I think earlier in this thread was a reference to a document somewhat >later than the BIOS code shipped with an AT. Which probably makes some sense as FreeBSD won't run on a plain IBM AT box anyway... >Do we want to start a new thread on what exactly =is= the authoritative >documentation for PC architecture? > >The real issue is FreeBSD has to be able to boot on the hardware that's >in the stores. Having abandoned my i486 Overdrive box just a week ago in favor of a decent 166 MHz (gee!) Pentium CPU, I'd like to claim that FreeBSD should be able to boot on hardware that's in the field rather than in the stores. That's definitely the bigger number of variants. Helge To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message