From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 10:26:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F4937BCF0; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (postfix@genius.systems.pavilion.net [212.74.1.100]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA42864; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:26:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id C6BF012547; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:26:58 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 18:26:58 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACPI project progress report Message-ID: <20000620182658.C52814@pavilion.net> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Warner Losh , Mike Smith , acpi-jp@jp.freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200006200335.UAA11000@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006200334.VAA65167@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:34:01PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > 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... On my vaio it's a separate partition on the disk of type 160 (which partition magic calls "save to disk"). Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message