From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 9 13:22:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B53337B4C5; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:22:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA10919; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:22:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 16:22:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Terry Lambert Cc: "Justin T. Gibbs" , Bill Paul , Warner Losh , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vx driver patch In-Reply-To: <200011091704.KAA21174@usr08.primenet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Terry Lambert wrote: > At one (gross) time in history, Alphas included an x86 emulator in ROM > to facilitate this (and other BIOS POST initialization stuff, mostly). Somehow I doubt I'll be able to make VM86 calls to BIOS interrupt services on the Alpha. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message