From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 31 21:07:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA00911 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from sendero-ppp.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00890 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:07:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-ppp.i-connect.net) Received: (qmail 9611 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Nov 1997 05:07:29 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-beta-103097 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199711010406.OAA00828@word.smith.net.au> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 21:07:29 -0800 (PST) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: Mike Smith Subject: RE: BIOS information preservation (was Re: >64MB) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Jamil J. Weatherbee) , Terry Lambert Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Mike Smith; On 01-Nov-97 you wrote: > > Work on calling BIOS calls via VM86(). Get that working, and > > dozens of people will be happy to correct the problem for you. > > I'm doing that today (but screwed because I'm out of paper and *&^%*&^ > Micorosoft post Word documents and pretend that they're RTF, so I can't > *read* the suckers). (*) > > Anyone likely to complain if I add a new datastructure to i386/bios.c > and > start populating it with stuff that various parts of the system glean > about the BIOS environment? Or should I be using a procedural lookup > interface for this? > > eg. either: > > foo = i386biosinfo->bios_memsize; > > or > > error = i386biosinfo("memsize", &foo) Either way, I'd love it. I need such facility BADLY. > * Terry, I believe you mentioned that some Microsoft Developer package > contained sources for the Word Viewer, or something similar. Would > there be any chance of crossing this with a Win32-on-unix environment > like that from Willows or Bristol to get a FreeBSD Word Viewer? I'm > sick beyond belief of having to find a copy of Word and 2-300 sheets > of paper just to read these banal "standard" documents. I'dd love that too! All our corporate mail is on M$ Worst... Yuck! > --- If Microsoft Built Cars: Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car. Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Atlas Telecom Senior Architect 14355 SW Allen Blvd., Suite 130 Beaverton OR 97005 Shimon@i-Connect.Net Voice: 503.799.2313