Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 21:34:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Message-ID: <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:35:33 PDT." <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> References: <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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In message <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes: : Can we guarantee that we can find this area? On eg. the Dell i7500 that : I've been playing most with, it's a file on a FAT filesystem, and the : BIOS will only "find" it if the filesystem is in the 'active' partition : at boot time. Generally we cannot guarnatee that. IIRC, there's lots of variation. Usually it is just a partition, but sometimes it is the last N cylenders of the disk, and sometimes it is a file like you say. It would at the very least need to be configured... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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