From owner-freebsd-current Thu Nov 9 13:27:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A17E037B479 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eA9LRfg22042; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:27:42 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA44057; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:27:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011092127.OAA44057@harmony.village.org> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Subject: Re: vx driver patch Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 16:22:01 EST." References: Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 14:27:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : 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. I think you are right. Even if the emulator ws there, it was only used to run the ROM post code, not to be active any time after the boot to use at randomly... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message