From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 27 11:03:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03383 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:03:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se (root@piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se [129.16.234.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03264 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 11:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se) Received: from scooter.mdstud.chalmers.se (md6tommy@scooter.mdstud.chalmers.se [129.16.234.20]) by piggy.mdstud.chalmers.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA09483; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:02:50 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (md6tommy@localhost) by scooter.mdstud.chalmers.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA00289; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:02:48 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: scooter.mdstud.chalmers.se: md6tommy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 20:02:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: Tommy Hallgren To: Ben Cohen cc: jack , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Ben Cohen wrote: > Does FreeBSD use the BIOS for anything other than booting up and > installation? Not much right now, but it probably will in the future since supporting all kinds of hardware is a waste of time when the BIOS already supports it. ACPI, APM, SMBus and PCI comes to mind. Tommy Hallgren(md6tommy@mdstud.chalmers.se) - the source of all good beers... Go to http://www.freebsd.org and get real BSD Unix. Today! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message