Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:13:37 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, Jung-uk Kim <juikim@engin.umd.umich.edu>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anybody working on FreeBSD BIOS? Message-ID: <39495511.3B7E5658@bellatlantic.net> References: <200006152147.OAA00521@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > > well linuxbios is what I started here, and I pinged some folks on this > > list about supporting freebsd as well as linux, and got a 'no interest' > > back from some folks. > > > > I'm still up for it. I think it's easy. > > I'd suggest you go talk to Parag Patel, who's just wasted about three > months of his life trying to make SmartFirmware run on _one_ supposedly > well-documented board. Parag is nobody's fool, and I consider his > results pretty representative of the issue. Maybe I'm completely mistunderstanding the subject, but what about EFI (Extendable Firmware Interface) ? It's the new Intel's proposal for BIOS. It's the only thing that will be (and is) on IA-64, and also will be retrofitted on the 32-bit machines. It's a very flexible thing including extensive API, OS-independent loadable drivers, networking, serial console, etc. I'm in progress of reading the specs (avaliable from the Intel's developer web site), so I don't know more detail yet. The spec says that the full source code of reference implementation is available for free. By the way, they used FreeBSD as the base of their EFI API implementation (libc, networking and other). -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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