Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 12:13:19 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jdl@jdl.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <199601040143.MAA09628@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199601031807.LAA15058@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 3, 96 11:07:39 am
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > *Can* it? > > "Windows 95 will now determine the hardware installed in you system. > If this takes too long, turn off your computer (do *not* try to use > control-alt-delete) and restart setup. It will resume after the > device that caused the crash" > > I maintain that if Microsoft can do it, *anyone* can do it. Ok Terry, you win. VM86() it is; now can you or one of the other VM wizards dribble enough of it out so that we can set up a context in which it is safe to make BIOS calls? I certainly don't have the low-level iNTeL smarts required to do this, and all of the discussions about it so far have always escalated to the point where it looks like a monster project, and then petered out. I seem to recally you saying that the NetBSD folks had it working; if this is the case, what are the critical differences between their code and ours that would need to be changed? In the current scenario, what we want is an equivalent of IBM's OS/2 int13 driver, and most likely similar for int15 (EISA) and while we're at it int10 would be nice (BIOS video). Anything more is frippery now, but might be useful later. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[
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