Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:43:35 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001120343.TAA04076@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 19:29:23 PST." <387BF513.8A2D607E@nwlink.com>
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> > > Nearly 100% of "modern" Flash Memory devices either emulate an IDE drive > > in Hardware or have emulate a standard BIOS disk device using some sort of > > BIOS driver, usually in such a way so that it will boot a DOS-like OS from > > it. > > Which brings up the question that keeps nagging at me: How possible is > it to create a pc bios that is geared towards BSD/linux? This would > include its own lightweight repair shell. Couldn't this solve a lot of > problems with pc hardware, to have a unix-oriented bios? No. If you think about what BIOS code actually does, this should really be fairly obvious. In all reality, new BIOS features are actually directed towards the same sort of problems that we're facing, even if the process is driven largely by Microsoft. Take a look at eg. ACPI to see what I mean. -- \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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