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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:04:05 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels 
Message-ID:  <200001120404.UAA04357@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:40:53 PST." <387BF7C5.AA29A063@nwlink.com> 

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> > 
> > No.  If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really
> > be fairly obvious.
> 
> Sorry, I'm clueless 8).  What does it do, exactly?

Provides an abstract interface to a completely arbitrary hardware
instance.  Since there are no hardware standards at this level, you'd have
to duplicate the unix-specific BIOS for every piece of hardware out there.

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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