Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 23:27:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Hiten Pandya <hitmaster2k@yahoo.com> Cc: <ia64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: a mess Message-ID: <20011105232430.P549-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <20011105225522.42457.qmail@web21106.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Hiten Pandya wrote: > hi all, > i jus' wanted to ask... > > the files in /src/sys/boot/ia64... > which are ski something are temporary i beleive..? > > are they only there till we get to use the real IA64 > hardware.? > I certainly wouldn't describe it as a mess. There are some files in boot/ia64 which are there to support the kernel loader under the HP simulator, SKI. The real hardware uses Intel's new EFI firmware which is intended to be platform independant. The efi loader sources are in sys/boot/efi with (most of) the ia64 specific stuff in sys/boot/efi/libefi/arch/ia64. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Phone: +44 20 8348 6160 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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