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Date:      Mon, 27 Apr 1998 17:43:48 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing
Message-ID:  <19980427174348.15863@follo.net>
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On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 05:40:29PM +0200, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav  wrote:
> Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> writes:
> > There has just been added code to allow further use of the BIOS; this
> > might result in fall-back drivers, allowing you to boot from a
> > BIOS-supported disk without a FreeBSD-specific driver.
> 
> Performance issues blah blah blah...

This is intended to allow GENERIC and friends to boot a controller
(e.g. the DPT) before the actual driver has been compiled into the
kernel.  A bad-performing controller is better than no controller etc.

Eivind.



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