From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 11 12:51:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB3137B77F; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:51:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA259784; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:51:37 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com> References: <200006111747.KAA14537@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:51:56 -0400 To: Mike Smith , "Daniel C. Sobral" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: VMware detection code in boot loader Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 10:47 AM -0700 6/11/00, Mike Smith wrote: >It's not a port, it's a platform. We probably want to add extra >words to detect other platform features, eg. i386, alpha, ia64, >etc. but that doesn't invalidate the basic idea. For instance, I might be running the vmware program itself under linux, and thus I am doing nothing with a "freebsd port" of vmware. At system startup, vmware is just a (virtual) hardware platform that the OS might want to be aware of. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message