Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:56:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PnP BIOS Message-ID: <199806102056.NAA11167@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806101755.LAA04506@harmony.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Jun 10, 98 11:55:52 am
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> : This is basically enough information that, were it implemented, you > : *should* be able to boot FreeBSD or Linux -- under FreeBSD. > > Would this open the door to using WinNT/Win95 32 bit drivers in the > FreeBSD kernel? Or is that too evil a thought to even consider... It's part of it. The other parts of it are emulating the VxD's expected environment, including use of ELF, honoring section attribution, formalizing virtual interrupts for top/bottom processing (mostly there), and supporting kernel paging. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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